On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:08:16AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:33:17 +0100, Rolf Nielsen > <listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com> wrote: > > As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it > > may cause other systems not to recognise the disk. > > Primarily, it's called "dedicated" (only) because it describes > a setting where a whole hard disk is dedicated to the FreeBSD > operating system. The addition "dangerously" seems to describe > the danger that other operating systems cannot handle such a > disk layout, or may cause problems to them - but I don't know > this for sure because I'm not a "multi-booter". :-)
It is dangerous because other systems cannot talk to it. It is dedicated because only FreeBSD can talk to it. It is a somewhat redundant term but it sounds good and important. ////jerry _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"