partitions (bad idea ??)
Eric Ho
eho at cognito.princeton.edu
Wed Jul 19 16:32:43 AEST 1989
Has anyone out there worked on filesystems that either eliminates
partitions. The only reason that I can see to have the notion of
partitions around from the OS standpoint is to limit filesystem size (& to
make a filesystem) and maybe easier for doing backups. The problem with
this approach is that the layout is pretty static -- everytime you need to
change the layout or mostly partition sizes, you'll have to backup that
disk, run format and restore everything again. This is pretty stupid
really -- I mean if I want to expand one partition/filesystem into the
space previously occupied by another partition/filesystem, why should I've
to go thro' all the backup/restore hassels.
Eric Ho
Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University
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eho at bogey.princeton.edu
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