[923] in Athena Bugs
RD32 disk partition sizes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 14 12:32:56 1988
From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 12:32:20 EDT
To: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Wed, 14 Sep 88 12:21:44 EDT <8809141621.AA01654@E40-342F-2.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Once a change is made to the "standard" partition table in the kernel
and in /etc/disktab, you will have to newfs /site again... The VAX
kernel does not support ioctl's on the drive to return what the current
partitions are and must therefore rely on the default tables in the
kernel. Given this situation, does one really want to change it around
as this will mean finding all the machines with RD32's, backing up
/site, re-newfs'ing /site, and finally doing a restore? I do agree that
there would be a performance improvement, but will operations go for it?
-Richard
