Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:38:21 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. Message-ID: <25804.805538301@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:04:27 %2B0200." <199507120604.IAA09165@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> This comes up over and over again. In Usenet. In private mails/talks > i'm getting. I'm not very happy that the slice code broke *many* > systems that used to run before with their dedicated disks. IMHO, we > should have an option to disable the slice code in case somebody > wishes to use a disk dedicated to FreeBSD (perhaps even a non-bootable > disk, so the BIOS braindeadness is in no way a valid reason). There I think that phk doesn't necessarily disagree with any of the above sentiments but also he's got rather a lot on his plate at the moment and probably just doesn't have time to work the required magic in libdisk. I, at the sysinstall level, try to approach the idea of the geometry and layout as abstractly as possible, as it should be. This goes through libdisk, and as long as libdisk works, I'm happy. This means that if you're feeling adventurous then you shouldn't hesitate to go digging around in /usr/src/release/libdisk until it does the sorts of things you want it to.. :-) Jordan
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