From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Oct 5 4:17:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8BD37B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 04:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id NAA87344; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:17:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13458; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:17:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:17:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) In-Reply-To: <20001005101454.I7292@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. To date, I've never run a FreeBSD _workstation_ that didn't share disks with another operating system. Also, the ability for FreeBSD to coexist with other systems has been one of the vital ingredients for me when I am trying to convince a potential new user to try it out. I think you would need to do an extensive poll to be able to track whether this configuration is "seldom" used. And as to bloat, I am certain there are less needed parts of the system you could just as easily trim away. For example, have a look at all the legacy code in msdosfs. If anyone wants them, I've got patches lying about that fix this. Haven't gotten around to send-pr'ing them yet. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message