Is anything being done to un-break partition names?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jun 5 20:26:05 UTC 2009


In message <eaa228be0906051314i6d26622etcba248889a5195e4 at mail.gmail.com>, Juli 
Mallett writes:

>> That's your problem. In a DD setup, you don't have slices.
>
>I'm not arguing about whether the names are technically correct =97 I'm
>concerned about POLA violations and the undocumented breakage of
>legitimately-installed systems.

DD has not been "legitimate" since 4.x releases.

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