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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:56:51 -0700 (MST)
From:      <janb@cs.utep.edu>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com>
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removal of Disklabel
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.05.10011200956080.15354-100000@gecko>
In-Reply-To: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com>

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I could not agree more.

JAn
> 
> I've never been a fan of this.  May I make a recommendation (flame away,
> boys):  redo disklabel while we're at it.  it seems counter-intuitive to
> me, as well as wasteful, to make partition "c" the whole disk and skip "d"
> altogether.  IMHO, "da0s1" should refer to the whole disk, "da0s1a" should
> be the first physical partition, "da0s1b" the second partition, etc. down
> to "h".  This gives us 8 partitions of any type: swap or FS.  This is not
> ambiguous, the "swapon" would detect in the label p_fstype and if it were
> not equal to FS_SWAP it wouldn't try to swap-mount it.  Same goes for any
> FS mount, if p_fstype != FS_BSDFFS or whatnot, it wouldn't allow mounting
> of that FS.
> 
> I know this has been discussed and back in 2.2.5 IIRC the partitions/slices
> were renamed from da0a to da0s1a.  But it seems pointless and stupid to
> keep propagating bad and very confusing methodologies just for historical
> purposes.  Keep it simple stupid and make it make sense, and yes I've
> wanted to use past "h" before...
> 
> One more gripe:  why was s1 chosen to be the first logical slice and not
> s0?  Did we computer scientists start counting with 1 by accident?
> 
> Should I present these suggestions to -current or will I get flamed there
> too?  =)  No seriously, I think we should fix this (IMO) "broken" issue soon.
> Those who have current systems won't have to rebuild their systems or
> anything, just the sysinstaller should allocate logical partition numbers
> in physical order, and build the fstab in such a way.  That shouldn't break
> current usage, just make old-timers think a little.  ;)
> 
> --Rick C. Petty,  aka Snoopy                     rick@kiwi-computer.com
> 
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