From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 13 13:00:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA07883 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA07875; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:00:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:00:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702132100.NAA07875@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: kern/2719: [patch] added support for 2k-block magneto-optical disks Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/2719; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: vak@cronyx.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/2719: [patch] added support for 2k-block magneto-optical disks Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:10:54 +0100 As vaki@cronyx.ru wrote: > For the (minimal) support of the MSDOS-formatted disks (when the msdos > filesystem will be fixed - somewhere in the future), the four > precompiled partitions E, F, G, H are added, with different offsets > from the beginning of the volume. Uh, all good intentions notwithstanding -- i think that's plain too hacky to go into some generic source tree. :-( -- 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. ;-)