Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:32:35 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> Subject: Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd Message-ID: <441B3903.9000604@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <86pskk3dwx.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5A0@royal64.emp.zapto.org> <86pskk3dwx.fsf@xps.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >"Daniel Eriksson" <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> writes: > > >>Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> >> >>>It is still possible to create dangerously dedicated disks, btw, and >>>it is still possible to put a disklabel (or even a filesystem) >>>directly on a device. GEOM means *more* freedom, not less. >>> >>> >>I've been putting filesystems directly on devices for some time >>now. Are there any drawbacks to doing this? >> >> > >Not unless you want to boot from them. > >DES > > given that "dangerously dedicated" mode had a dummy bootblock that referenced itself and loaded the next stage boot, that used to work.. I presume it still does..?
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