Subject: RE: GPT guids
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/16/2007 17:41:28
Haai,

On Sun, December 16, 2007 17:38, Juan RP wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:36:15 -0000 (UTC)
> "De Zeurkous" <zeurkous@nichten.info> wrote:
>
>> We had an excellent flame war about this already on tech-kern about half
>> a
>> year ago -- check the archives. To summarize my position: GPT sucks and
>> we
>> should just implement some extendable, copy-on-write disklabel format
>> instead. In fact, that is exactly what I'm going to do with NetNIX.
>
> Hahaaa... that was a nice joke!
>

Good to hear :) Over here, in this nice, cozy bubble, we prefer
relativation over shallowness, as well. I always thought we had more in
common than either of us would dare to admit...

Baai,

De Zeurkous
-----------

Friggin' Machines!

-- 
# Proud -net.kook- IRC bot overengineer
% NetBSD, zsh, twm, nvi and roff junkie
From the fool file:
I don't see why the way people have historically partitioned disks should
dictate which kernels we build and distribute by default in the future.
        --Darren Reed (darrenr@NetBSD.org), NetBSD tech-kern