Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:49:29 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCD questions Message-ID: <19991101174929.A36991@internal> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911010834540.27564-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:36:35AM -0800 References: <19991031195351.A22791@internal> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911010834540.27564-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 08:36:35 -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > > ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you > > > don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels, > > > and you can't use the C partition since ccd only uses partitions of type > > > 4.2BSD. > > > > Does that mean I should not use partition c as a 4.2BSD type? This is what > > I am currently doing on all disks (ccd'ed or single) if the whole disk is > > used as one big filesystem, e.g.: > > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > c: 45322644 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 2810*) > > I've been admonished for using the c partition as a filesystem since it's > somewhat magic. For regular disks the running recommendation is to make > another partition (a or g or whatever) that is identical to the c > partition information, and to newfs/mount that. I personally haven't run > into problems but I've been warned that the c partition interface is > subject to change. OK, I see. So I am going to use the a partition in future and leave c unused. Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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