From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 06:55:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA11645 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 06:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA11640 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 06:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tXUbC-0003vvC; Wed, 3 Jan 96 06:55 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01464; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:55:30 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 01:24:34 +1100." <199601031424.BAA09953@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 15:55:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1462.820680930@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> The problem is not the general case, it's the worst case. I guess the > >> question is whether the worst case is worth worrying about... 8) > > >No, I doubt that. I expect the above loop to finish in < 3 sectors > >in 99.999% of the cases where it matters. > >(if the bios reports same geometry for two disks, then we don't care > >if they are identical, since it will not confuse us. We just need > >a signature for each bios-geometry :-) > > We need a unique signature for converting the BIOS boot drive number to > the FreeBSD root drive name. True, that would bring it to 99.99999% then... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.