From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 9 10:50:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FB137B419 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id TAA03572 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:50:46 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB9IoDk56599 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:50:13 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:50:13 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <20011209195013.J97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mail-Followup-To: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <44735.1007899299@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:52:58PM +1030 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I don't understand the need some people have for using something > that is labelled as DANGEROUS. Historically, it hasn't been labelled that, it only later became common terminology for it -- in the typical half-joking manner. > No, it won't hurt your cats but you may lose hair from using it, and > for what benefit? NONE! See my other reply about fdisk tables: they are a misdesign from the beginning. The single most wanted feature it buys you is the ability to completely forget the term `geometry' with your disks: the very first sectors of a disk always have the same BIOS int 0x13 representation, regardless of what your BIOS/controller thinks the `geometry' might be. Thus, those disks are basically portable between controller BIOSes. (Modulo those newer broken BIOSes that believe eggs must be smarter than hens -- see my other article for an opinion.) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message