Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 23:59:06 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: 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, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010012343530.5871-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20001001131126.L43885@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 2:48:53 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> You can do it, but it's not a good idea. I'd like to see a good > >> reason for doing this. > > > > If "c" is defined to be "the whole disk" , and you want to use "the > > whole disk", it makes sense. > > No, you don't *ever* want a UFS on the whole disk, you want it on a > partition, because those are the objects on which file systems work. No, file systems work on disk devices. The disk device may be the whole disk device, a slice, or a partition. I sometimes use a slice. > That's OK. CD-ROMs don't have partitions. It's probably a bug that > we even have partition letters for non-partitioned media. cdroms have in-core labels, although this is a bug (they should work like unlabled whole disks or slices). Ken Merry has some code to support writable cdroms with real labels. > > I threw away this convention on many of my systems long ago, when I > > resigned myself to aving a DOS parititon table on my machines, when > > the Alpha and PReP platforms decided to require it as well. > > Is your 'h' key sticking? :-) I hoped to replace BSD partitions by native partitions on systems where native partitions are adequate. Native partitions always have to be supported, and another layer for BSD partitions mainly makes things more complicated. Unfortunately, my compatibility code was too good :). > I strongly object to the Microsoft "partition" table, and I don't use > it myself. And of course you're welcome to use whatever you find > convenient. It's not until you advocate making this a standard way > that anybody can have any objection. Why? It is only broken in different ways than the BSD label. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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