From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 9:23:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BA137B479; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22501; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:23:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16596; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:23:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14873.24098.233002.62004@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:23:46 -0700 (MST) To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Mike Smith , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200011201410.eAKEAUQ68747@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <200011201347.eAKDl7F12951@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200011201410.eAKEAUQ68747@cwsys.cwsent.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather > > > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For > > > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture > > > entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires > > > an fdisk label and disklabel is redundant. It seems like a no-brainer > > > to me, just remove support for disklabel entirely. Simple and end of > > > argument. > > > > This is painful for lots of other reasons, and the counter-argument is > > that this is change for change's sake rather than change to a useful end. > > Not necessarily. Many people complain about the redundancy of > partitions and slices. Let's remove one level as the suggest. As the > PC architecture uses fdisk partitions, let's use that. No more > arguments. That's not good enough. The PC architecture limits us to 4-total partitions, which isn't good enough. It's not even good enough for M$, so they invented 'extended partitions, which is a M$-only feature. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message