Subject: Re: Hard drive partitioning
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/17/1998 13:23:12
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> I was thinking more of constraining partitions to single zones so the FFS
> assumptions would actually match the physical geometry. Then it's just a
> matter of code tweaking without so much thought required. I don't think
> it's really worth doing though because it's too much work for just a
> jury-rigged solution.
As an added complication, I'm not aware of drives which advertize where
the different zones are. Plus, as the drive's supposed to do block
re-allocation on its own, you'll never FULLY know where a block is. :-(
Take care,
Bill