Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:55:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@echunga.lemis.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011200955.eAK9tiF11715@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:27:19 %2B1030." <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com>
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> > I don't think that anyone will remove it from the kernel...
>
> OK, the more this thread continues, the more it's looking as if we're
> talking about different things. I don't have (much) of an objection
> to removing it from sysinstall. If that's all we're talking about, I
> don't have any further objections. But I still want to have the
> facility in the system.
The ability to create disks which do not have a valid slice table will go
away. End of story.
> I wonder how long the current Microsoft partition table has to live,
> anyway? Sooner or later people are going to have to move to LBA
> addressing, or disks will get so big that the partition table can't
> address them. Then, hopefully, we'll be able to use a more sane
> layout.
Geez Greg. You really don't have a damn clue about this, do you?
Or have you conveniently overlooked the fact that the slice table already
*contains* an LBA field?
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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