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Re: MBR Support for EDD Reads (> 8 GB)
From: Marc Balmer (marc
msys.ch)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 08:18:49 CST
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Dennis Wecker wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 01:03:49 -0500
>Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd2004.snew.com> wrote:
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>>ok, then the clear answer, for many years, has been:
>> Doesn't work.
>> Don't do it.
>>
>>Since there's no real good reason to have a 8GB+ root file
>>system, my rash presumption was that you were multi-booting.
>>
>>it's really cheap to say that. why don't you say "we just haven't implement it"?
>>
>>
I am following this discussion a bit while working - and for some hours
now I wonder what a root file system >8GB could be good for? The only
reason I can imagine is '/dev/null' - when I think about the amounts of
data I pump every day to /dev/null (which is on my root partition), then
it should be big enough...
- mb (ntbts)
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