Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 08:36:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCD questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911010834540.27564-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991031195351.A22791@internal>
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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you > > don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels, > > and you can't use the C partition since ccd only uses partitions of type > > 4.2BSD. > > Does that mean I should not use partition c as a 4.2BSD type? This is what > I am currently doing on all disks (ccd'ed or single) if the whole disk is > used as one big filesystem, e.g.: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 45322644 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 2810*) I've been admonished for using the c partition as a filesystem since it's somewhat magic. For regular disks the running recommendation is to make another partition (a or g or whatever) that is identical to the c partition information, and to newfs/mount that. I personally haven't run into problems but I've been warned that the c partition interface is subject to change. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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