From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 09:40:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12011 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12006 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA25932; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:39:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA17419; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:39:43 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:39:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199811111739.KAA17419@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Birrell Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), peter@netplex.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: <199811110756.SAA04980@cimlogic.com.au> References: <9326.910765040@zippy.cdrom.com> <199811110756.SAA04980@cimlogic.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've read Peter's concerns about systems that were disklabelled ages > ago, but I question the length of time we are expected to support disk > allocations from the past. Let's move forward... Umm, this issue isn't 'disklabellede disks from the past', it was 'size of the / partition'. The smaller the root partition, the less likely you'll corrupt it and the less more quickly you can fsck the darn thing at boot time and get on with fixing crashes when they happen. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message