From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 10:45: 5 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 73DC437B4C5 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:44:58 -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 LAA23914; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:44:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17189; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:44:53 -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: <14873.28965.286468.690696@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:44:53 -0700 (MST) To: Warner Losh Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), FreeBSD Filter , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200011201843.LAA24990@harmony.village.org> References: <14873.28040.451463.172207@nomad.yogotech.com> <14873.24098.233002.62004@nomad.yogotech.com> <200011201823.MAA48985@KIWI-Computer.com> <200011201843.LAA24990@harmony.village.org> 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 > : (I for one would be *very* annoyed to see FreeBSD change it's disk > : format to be more M$-like, since it would be a gratiutious that would > : cause endless grief for existing installations, and it's bowing even > : more to M$.) > > No one is suggesting this. We are just suggesting that new > installations not create DD unless people jump through a lot of > hoops. We're not proposing changing of the on disk format, just > moving away from DD mode for new installs. Right, but the bike-shed discussion must continue on until either the end of FreeBSD is mentioned, or someone starts mentioning Nazi's. It's the Usenet way. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message