From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 9:55:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com [155.208.254.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557D537B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:55:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (hpcpbla.bri.hp.com [15.144.112.65]) by bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D7420221; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:55:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id RAA06860; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:55:01 GMT Received: (from keithj@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAKHxag15190; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:59:36 GMT (envelope-from keithj) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:59:36 +0000 From: Keith Jones To: Nate Williams Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120175935.B14723@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <200011201347.eAKDl7F12951@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200011201410.eAKEAUQ68747@cwsys.cwsent.com> <14873.24098.233002.62004@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <14873.24098.233002.62004@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:23:46AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:23:46AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > [thread snipped] > > 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. Me too! I'm very fond of the fact that I can have five or six slices in a single PC-style partition. I've hit that limit a couple of times, with the result that my home machine has often had two BSD partitions on the same disk, each containing a number of disk slices. (Support for DOS extended partitions would mitigate this, and although it _is_ a M$ invention AFAIK, such support would probably be a Good Thing as far as the general populace is concerned.) I'd also think very carefully about changing the disk slice nomenclature from da0s1a/ad0s1a etc. to something new - I can still remember the last time it changed and I spent a number of hours tearing my hair out getting my machines to boot after the upgrade. Keith -- Keith Jones E-Business Service Introduction, GBIT-E (Bristol) E: keith_jones@non.hp.com T: [+44 117] 312-7602 I don't speak for Hewlett-Packard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message