From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 1 8:49:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thoth.mch.sni.de (thoth.mch.sni.de [192.35.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27C114F94 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 08:49:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer thoth.mch.sni.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by thoth.mch.sni.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05336 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:49:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18641 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:49:29 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA18166 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:49:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:49:29 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Doug White Cc: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCD questions Message-ID: <19991101174929.A36991@internal> References: <19991031195351.A22791@internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:36:35AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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