Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >"Daniel Eriksson" <daniel_k_eriksson_at_telia.com> writes: > > >>Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> >> >>>It is still possible to create dangerously dedicated disks, btw, and >>>it is still possible to put a disklabel (or even a filesystem) >>>directly on a device. GEOM means *more* freedom, not less. >>> >>> >>I've been putting filesystems directly on devices for some time >>now. Are there any drawbacks to doing this? >> >> > >Not unless you want to boot from them. > >DES > > given that "dangerously dedicated" mode had a dummy bootblock that referenced itself and loaded the next stage boot, that used to work.. I presume it still does..?Received on Fri Mar 17 2006 - 21:32:40 UTC
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