From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 12:49:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09863 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09851 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id UAA20097; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:44:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:35:15 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19970421203928.LG60164@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199704211655.JAA13746@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 21, 1997 09:55:21 -0700 <199704211655.JAA13746@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:32:44 +0100 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 19:39 +0100 21/4/97, J Wunsch wrote: >The magicness of the `c' partition simply solves the chicken-and-egg >problem for an unlabelled disk. I agree that it doesn't necessarily >need to be a pseudo-partition, but either way, you'll end up with >basically the same as there is now (since you need a minor number for >it anyway), so why change the traditional method? POLA. Don't you also need it for bad144'ing? -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK