Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:41:55 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stackable storage Alpha release Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971130103603.9939A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19971130191134.51029@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Joerg said: > > Hmm. I hope you don't `unsupport' non-sliced disks. I'm exclusively > relying on them. I hate slices, and i particular hate the geometry > hassles resulting out of the fdisk table braindamage (C/H/S > limitations, and non-portability issues between different > controllers). So if you don't support non-sliced disks, be assured, > i'd like to help out in this area... ;-) No I support them better than they were supported before, it's just that their name (sd01, sd0b) cannot be used as aliases for SLICED partitions, (sd0s1a) (sd0s1b) in /etc/fstab, because they are very different devices.. one has one layer, while the other has 2 layers.. Supporting it is sunch a hack to to the layering that I don't want to do it. julian p.s. the patch is already out-of date .. (of course) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >
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