On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> Why not implement slices (as in FreeBSD), as a first step towards wegdes?

Because that only helps i386/mbr based systems, and the idea was to help
all NetBSD systems. Well, mbr-based disks.

> AFAIR there's never been any real implementation of wedges; discussion
> on public mailing lists of how they should work gets hopelessly bogged
> down in feature-creep and the downsides of naming via a userspace daemon.
>
> Do slices first, get some experience. Then we could gather data to
> compare wedge implementations: e.g., in-kernel, numbering of
> extended-partition wedges, giving the same mapping Linux/i386 kernels
> use), versus a fully configurable userspace-daemon approach.

But every time we've looked at slices, we've not liked what we've seen.
It's ugly. Yes, we should learn from it, but I think we can learn from it
w/o implementing it.

Take care,

Bill