From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 11: 3: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DE337B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:02:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eALJ2NT18016; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:02:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200011211850.LAA10375@freeway.dcfinc.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:02:32 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Chad R. Larson" Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, uwe@ptc.spbu.ru, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Nov-00 Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: >>> The last time this got beat to death, John Baldwin suggested moving >>> the option out from sysinstall, but adding it to fdisk. That way >>> newbies wouldn't see it up front, but it would still be available to >>> folks who knew what they were doing and wanted to do it. >> >> To manually create a DD disk, you don't need an option added to fdisk. >> Just disklabel the disk instead of fdisking it. > > I think John's point was to make it less likely a newbie (or > otherwise clueless individal) would create a DD disk thinking it > sounded cool. So, it wasn't so much that the option should be in > fdisk, but that it shouldn't be in sysinstall. And fdisk =does= > seem like a logical place for it. That's where you'd go to make a > non-DD disk that used the whole drive. Hmm, I don't recall making this suggestion. :-P Taking it out of sysinstall would needlessly complicate the lives of people who might actually need it. disklabel(8) can already do this via 'disklabel ad0 auto'. I think my suggestion might have been to change how sysinstall works though, so that instead of prompting the user, the fdisk editor in sysinstall would have a seperate hotkey that you hit (other than 'A') that would do a dangerously dedicated disk. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message