Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:46:34 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Andre Albsmeier <andre@akademie3000.de>, Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010051042550.40903-100000@lion.butya.kz> In-Reply-To: <20001005101454.I7292@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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