Quoting Paolo Alexis Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've noticed it, but I'm a bit hesitant to try out making filesystems > inside slices rather than in partitions. Anyway, I'll try it out... any > caveats on placing native Linux filesystems inside BSD-style partition > slices (aside from kernel support)? Any difference in logical device > assignments (say BSD-style slices are enumerated like how logical > partitions are presented)?
You know, it's been a long time since I last experimented with that, so I really can't remember. (If I trie to tell you what I recall, there's significant risk that I'll be recalling experiences with FreeBSD or Solaris, instead.) So, I guess I'd recommend trying a few experiments on a hard disk whose contents you don't care about. Actually, by an interesting coincidence, /dev/sdb on the server I'm sending this from used to have its Linux-native filesystems inside a BSD disklabel -- which happened by accident when I reused a hard drive that had last been used for FreeBSD. This was about two years ago. After I finally realised that, and thought about it for a while, I elected to back up all the data, re-do the disk's low-level format to completely empty it, create a conventional IBM/Microsoft-style partition table, recreate the filesystems, and put the data back. Why? Because I decided that running an unnecessarily strange configuration on a production server, and thus relying on Linux kernel code that probably wasn't well tested, seemed unwise. Your mileage may differ. ;-> -- Cheers, "Please return all dogmas to their orthodox positions." Rick Moen -- Brad Johnson, in r.a.sf.w.r-j [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
