Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:03:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs problems, more information: Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981019135157.13455E-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810192046.OAA29076@harmony.village.org>
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ok, for one, there is magic that corrects 'c' partition boundaries under
some cases.. if 'c' stops being magic then everything may 'shift'
if you are relying on this without knowing it.
also, 'c' is special in the case of bad144 error correction
though this presently has no real effect.
'c' special and its behaviour may change in the future in
unpredictable ways.
Until there is no code in the kernel that says
if (part == RAW_PART) {
some magic occurs;
}
I personally wouldn't use it.
eventually you should be able to use wd0s1 or just wd0
instead of wd0s1c or wd0c
why use 'c'?
just make an 'a' with the same figures...
Oh yeah... 'c' exists even if there is no valid disklabel
(it's created by default...) I've seen (not recently) cases where people
actually made a filesystem using 'c' and THEN they discoverd that there
was not actually a disklabel on the disk :-)
(I don't think this can happen any more with bruces code, but it was
a problem at one stage before he abstracted all that code from
all the drivers)
I just get all queezy when I think of it.. :-)
It's just relying on too many magic bandaids, which I were removing with
my slice code before it was so suddenly deleted.
I just don't understand why others don't get this 'uneasy feeling about
'c''
julian
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.981019125826.13279G-100000@current1.whistle.com> Julian Elischer writes:
> : I also chastise people for it all the time :-)
> : NEVER put a filesystem on 'c'
> : (until 'c' loses all magic)
>
> Why? It works and I've been doing it literally for years. What magic
> does 'c' have that would make this a bad idea?
>
> Warner
>
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