From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 22 00:00:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA19439 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 00:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA19428 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 00:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA08484 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 09:00:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27230; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:44:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970422084412.TC53852@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:44:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? References: <19970421203928.LG60164@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199704212115.OAA23175@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704212115.OAA23175@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 21, 1997 14:15:22 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > You don't need a minor number for it at all, *if* you reexport devices > based on the fan-out from a DOS partition table. What do you do for a drive that has no DOS partition table (e.g. a new one)? You've got a chicken-and-egg problem, and that's what this minor number is for. No, thanks. I avoid this crap (fdisk tables) whenever i can. I have no need for it. The current scheme at least works. 8 partitions aren't much, but if somebody's gonna change something at all, he should consider writing a logical volume manager anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)