From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 10:50:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA24668 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA24659 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA14186; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd014184; Sun Nov 30 10:44:12 1997 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:41:55 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stackable storage Alpha release In-Reply-To: <19971130191134.51029@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 julian p.s. the patch is already out-of date ..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. ;-) >