Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:18:08 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a la Message-ID: <XFMail.011210151808.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200112102311.fBANBA849291@apollo.backplane.com>
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On 10-Dec-01 Matthew Dillon wrote: > The buddy idea is kind of silly. The ability of one partition to inherit > the space freed up by another is based on whether the partition is > adjacent to the other, not whether it's the other's buddy. Nah. Think about it, the disklabel isn't created until the end when it is written to disk. You can easily shuffle the sizes around and not set the actual start sectors until commit time. It's just a generalization of your auto-resize thingie. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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