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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:31:39 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) 
Message-ID:  <200011200931.eAK9VdF11598@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:03:19 %2B1030." <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> 

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> >>  Right, for those cases where it's needed.  More specifically, we need
> >>  to now how non-bogus it needs to be.
> >
> > Why is DD ever _needed_?
> 
> Because Microsoft partition tables waste space.

This is incorrect.  DD mode was created in an attempt to work around 
legacy geometry-related issues.  It was a mistake.
-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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