From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 10 13:19:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05050 for current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04977 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA09363 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04685 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA00998 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:32:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604101932.VAA00998@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: OK, I've looked for CCD in the mail archives, but no findee. To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:32:03 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604092148.HAA14895@nemeton.com.au> from "Giles Lean" at Apr 10, 96 07:48:24 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Giles Lean wrote: > > I don't think slices are absolutely necessary to import it. (Heck, > > why would you slice it again after having the disks just concatenated? > > :) > > Concatenating the disks improves peak performance so it may still be > desirable to slice the disks for the usual reasons of space > management, dump convenience, etc. Partitions: yes. Slices: no sense. Unless you're going to port the CCD driver to DOS, Linux, Winglows95, etc. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)