>>>>> On 22 Jun 1997 21:51:04 +0900,
	enami tsugutomo <enami@ba2.so-net.or.jp> said:

>> But re-reading the thread (what a clever concept!), I think we're both
>> right. I said having more freely-asignable partitions will help, and you
>> said it won't solve the problem. We're both right. :-)

> How about to create a new disk device, disk inside some portion of
> parent disk?

IIRC, Koji Imada <koji@math.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote such device,
by supporting disklabel on vnode disk.
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