On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > 1) do as i386 did, and use the high bits for the new partitions. That
> > avoided the flag day, but folks are complaining now that that's ugly.
>
> Why is this ugly? And even if it is, I think it's the best overall
> solution myself precisely because it *does* avoid the flag day.

"Ugly" as in, the code is ugly, and the result of "ls -l /dev/sd*" is
ugly. "Ugly" as in, "inelegant".

Frederick