Nothing to add to the discussion. Just wanted to get the submitter on the Reply-all list.
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 11:53 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > >>My main fear here is that we are creating yet another knob, with little >>explanation, and no automation behind it. But maybe I'm missing >>something here. If indeed there is no automatic selection behind it, >>then I fear the end result will just be more confusion and trouble >>amongst users. >> >> > >This is a "let's pretend the disk is smaller" interface. > >I think this needs to be visible, and probably also settable, through at >least format(1m); ata.conf is not the right granularity for an >administrative interface. > >one other data point: if I'm not mistaken at least some TiVo DVRs >shipped with this value (or at least some very similar drive-shrinking >parameter) set on its internal drive. I had to code up an >implementation for NetBSD to back up my ancient TiVo Series 1 hard >drive). > > > > >
