On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:24:17PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> >> I think that the days of the 'dangerously dedicated partition' are
> >> numbered.
> >
> > Not quite. We don't do slices on the Alpha -- in fact our slice code
> > royally screws the Alpha users as it isn't nicely layered and thus hard
> > to avoid.
>
> But dangerously dedicated mode isn't used on the alpha. All of this
> stuff is purely x86-specific. The alpha just uses a disklabel instead
> of an MBR. Dangerously dedicated stuffs a disklabel into an MBR along
> with other ugliness.
Huh? This must be a semantic issue since alpha uses nothing but 'dangerously
dedicated'- at least in terms of how to use disklabel to create a usable disk
on FreeBSD alpha.
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