From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 1:25: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE67A37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:24:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAK9VdF11598; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:31:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011200931.eAK9VdF11598@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Greg Lehey Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:03:19 +1030." <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:31:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message