From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 5:40:34 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 81B0837B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:40:32 -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 eAKDl7F12951; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011201347.eAKDl7F12951@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:31:56 PST." <200011201332.eAKDWTB68389@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:47:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture > entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires > an fdisk label and disklabel is redundant. It seems like a no-brainer > to me, just remove support for disklabel entirely. Simple and end of > argument. This is painful for lots of other reasons, and the counter-argument is that this is change for change's sake rather than change to a useful end. We also need a native disk divvying method for platforms that don't have their own (eg. Alpha). The BSD disklabel serves this purpose well. -- ... 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