From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 13:32:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7502937B4C5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAJLcwF09621; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011192138.eAJLcwF09621@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Roelof Osinga Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:32:16 EST." <3A180EA0.31926227@glue.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:38:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run > FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. Please don't resuscitate this argument *again*. They're not "MS-style partitions"; the MBR slice table is mandated by the PC platform specification and there's simply nothing you can do about that. You might as well bitch that we call the "MS-style BIOS", or use "MS-style ACPI information", or "read the MS-style SMAP memory layout data" or "run on the MS-style x86 processors". This is how the platform works. Deal with it. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message