Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:14:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> 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: <20001005101454.I7292@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010050902330.11857-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:06:30AM %2B1100 References: <20001002105342.A8937@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010050902330.11857-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Thursday, 5 October 2000 at 9:06:30 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 23:59:06 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: >>> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 2:48:53 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > [actually, Greg wrote this, except for the quotes] >>>> 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. >> >> Because it's another layer of abstraction which doesn't add any >> functionality. Yes, there are claims that some BIOSes require it, but >> that makes the BIOSes broken. > > 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. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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