From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 12:32:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C76CF16A4BF; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4580643FDF; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314E92A8D4; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: <20030828191408.65D172A7EA@canning.wemm.org> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:32:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030828193252.314E92A8D4@canning.wemm.org> cc: Wes Peters cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/bsdlabel bsdlabel.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:32:53 -0000 Peter Wemm wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > "Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote: > > > In message <200308280815.12638.wes@softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes: > > > > > > >If I understand this correctly, this is a nice little change. You're > > > >trying to discourage people from just using the 'c' partition *as a > > > >filesystem*, right? > > > > > > yes. > > > > I'd like to see this go further and have the magic 'c' partition go away. > > eg: instead of using ad0c or ad0s1c, use ad0 or ad0s1 as the 'whole > > partition'. Having ad0c and ad0 as pseudo aliases for each other is a > > waste of a disklabel partition IMHO. > > Before this turns into another 'thread from hell', let me clarify that. Oh crap. I forgot about the f*cked up braindamage in the bootblocks about this. Sigh. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5