From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 19:53:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49ACF37B825 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:53:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA85808; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:53:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D99548.3201BC6D@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:53:44 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-HEAD-0320 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" References: <14552.57732.739752.665443@onceler.kcilink.com> <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org> <200003212255.PAA26291@harmony.village.org> <200003222301.QAA34410@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > I didn't say that using da0a is stupid. I said using dangerously > dedicated mode is stupid. Based on the number of times I've shot > myself in the foot trying to use dangaerously dedicated devices over > the years, I'll never use them again. I'm curious, what kind of problems have you had, and how is using the compatability slice an improvement? I've always used "dangerously dedicated" on my freebsd-only disks, and I've never had a problem. Not disagreeing, just curious, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence, is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message