On 30-Oct-00 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 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.
It is kind of semantic. However, on the alpha it is hardly dangerous. Nor
do we fake a MBR on the alpha (which is what makes it dangerous). The alpha
architecture doesn't use MBR's, but the PC arch does. Thus, having a disklabel
on the alpha is normal, having one at the start of a PC disk requires ugly
hacks that break the PC arch, hence the difference.
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