From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 15:35:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA15535 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:35:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA15516 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA22305 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 00:34:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA08102; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 00:33:24 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 00:33:24 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre References: <199701141726.KAA29974@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701141726.KAA29974@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 14, 1997 10:26:57 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Btw., FreeBSD also re-reads the geometry later if needed. The number > > presented at boot is only for convenience there. > > *Convenience*?!?!?! Yes, 99.5 % of all disks claimed by the `sd' driver are non-removable. It's often convenient to remember that the number of blocks appeared in the boot message (and thus, in /var/log/messages), for later reference. I'm pitying you that you're among the remaining 0.5 %. :-) -- 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. ;-)