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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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