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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:34:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, root@shockwave.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks
Message-ID:  <9503290734.AA25038@mmra1.ms.philips.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199503290712.RAA20923@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 29, 95 05:12:22 pm

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> >  Agreed again.  We're going to need to deal with this somehow, or users
> >  are going to SCREECH.  Bruce is safe over there in OZ, but I know that
> >  folks like Poul and I are going to get hundreds of mails in our boxes! :-(
> 
> Disagreed.  Aren't you going to tell everyone to reinstall like you did with
> all previous releases?  The new sysinstall won't make any invalid slices
> or partitions ;-).
> 

Please tell me that this is *not* going to happen. It is rediculous to ask 
to completely reinstall everything each time a new release comes out. 
Ppl have more on their mind than disklabel their disks again to support
yet another view on the disks (even if its a big improvement)

I would be very upset if I'd have to backup 7 gigs again just to upgrade
and wait for 2 whole days for restore to finish (if I'm lucky enough that
dump does break again like it does all the time nowadays, see 
freebsd-questions).

-Guido



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