From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 4 17:45:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C47137B503; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e950isl11832; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:14:54 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:14:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans Cc: Terry Lambert , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Andre Albsmeier , Marc Tardif , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <20001005101454.I7292@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001002105342.A8937@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bde@zeta.org.au on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:06:30AM +1100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 5 October 2000 at 9:06:30 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 23:59:06 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: >>> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 2:48:53 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > [actually, Greg wrote this, except for the quotes] >>>> I strongly object to the Microsoft "partition" table, and I don't use >>>> it myself. And of course you're welcome to use whatever you find >>>> convenient. It's not until you advocate making this a standard way >>>> that anybody can have any objection. >>> >>> Why? It is only broken in different ways than the BSD label. >> >> Because it's another layer of abstraction which doesn't add any >> functionality. Yes, there are claims that some BIOSes require it, but >> that makes the BIOSes broken. > > It adds the following functionality: > - up to 2^32 partitions (normally limited to 30 in FreeBSD). > - inter-operability with other OS's. OK, I rephrase that: it adds functionality that is seldom needed. Nearly all my boxes only run a single operating system, and there's no need for this additional bloat. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message