From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 18:50:48 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA05391 for current-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:50:48 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA05385 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:50:47 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA09150; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:50:39 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503160250.SAA09150@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:50:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503160231.AA16164@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 15, 95 07:31:42 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 730 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'