From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 10:29:36 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 EBF5137B4C5 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:29:33 -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 LAA23663; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:29:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17053; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:29:28 -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: <14873.28040.451463.172207@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:29:28 -0700 (MST) To: FreeBSD Filter Cc: Nate Williams , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200011201823.MAA48985@KIWI-Computer.com> References: <14873.24098.233002.62004@nomad.yogotech.com> <200011201823.MAA48985@KIWI-Computer.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 > > 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. > > Just because microsnot invented it doesn't mean they're the only ones using > it. Linux does, and I'm sure others do too. Linux is the *only* OS that I'm aware that follows M$ lead. I think it's that way because initially most of the Linux developers were M$ users, whereas most of the BSD developers were unix users who wanted to run a real OS on their PC. Totally different perspectives. (I for one would be *very* annoyed to see FreeBSD change it's disk format to be more M$-like, since it would be a gratiutious that would cause endless grief for existing installations, and it's bowing even more to M$.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message