From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 4 20:46:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF1337B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 20:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by relay.butya.kz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1957328887; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:46:35 +0700 (ALMST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.butya.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1028D287DF; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:46:35 +0700 (ALMST) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:46:34 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bruce Evans , Terry Lambert , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Andre Albsmeier , Marc Tardif , freebsd-fs@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: > > 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'm have only one box to run things on, and this becomes an issue when you buy a large disk but can't put enough OSes on it. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message