From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 4 19:50: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDB4137B67D for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23516 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2000 02:49:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bde.zeta.org.au) (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 5 Oct 2000 02:49:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:49:48 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Greg Lehey 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) In-Reply-To: <20001005101454.I7292@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 October 2000 at 9:06:30 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: [about Microsoft "partition" table] > > 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. I'll rephrase that again: it adds functionality that is seldom needed by you :-). Nearly all my boxes run between 2 and 4 operating systems, not counting old versions on old disks/partitions/removable-media/vmware- virtual-disks, although the active ones normally only run FreeBSD-current. Bcue To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message