From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 10 15:18:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE4F37B41D for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:18:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26466 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 23:18:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Dec 2001 23:18:12 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200112102311.fBANBA849291@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:18:08 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a la Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert , Peter Wemm , Robert Watson , Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Dec-01 Matthew Dillon wrote: > The buddy idea is kind of silly. The ability of one partition to inherit > the space freed up by another is based on whether the partition is > adjacent to the other, not whether it's the other's buddy. Nah. Think about it, the disklabel isn't created until the end when it is written to disk. You can easily shuffle the sizes around and not set the actual start sectors until commit time. It's just a generalization of your auto-resize thingie. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message