Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:50:38 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) Message-ID: <199503160250.SAA09150@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9503160231.AA16164@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 15, 95 07:31:42 pm
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> 1. Physical volume spanning. Like AIX, it is useful to have a > logical partition on which you actually build your file system > capable of spanning one or more phical partitions on one or > more physical drives. Is this an argument for or against ? > 2. Ability to mount partitions using different physical layout > strategies between machines running the same OS. Ie: a DEC > Alpha Syquest disk on a 386 box. I'm lost, this has nothing to do with geometry in my book... Once a filesystem is made, the geometry is determined isn't it ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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