Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> wrote: `> Hi Theo, it's a long time since we last conversed. > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 03:44:17PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > What user without OpenBSD experience is booting from 'd'? > > > > Which also poses the question -- what user with OpenBSD experience > > is booting from 'd'? > > > > Why? > > Some disklabel partitions have traditionally had specific meanings: > > a - root fs > b - swap > c - whole disk > d - on non-OpenBSD systems is 'whole disk' where c is not > i - often used for non FFS partitions on OpenBSD > > Why would you automatically make a RAID as parition 'a'? > > It's not a root fs. > > I don't see any logic behind RAID partition = 'a'. > > What if you want more than one? > > Booting from non-'a' softraids has never been discouraged on amd64. > > It's been noted that on other archs it doesn't work, but there has > never been a general advisory that booting from softraid volumes should > only be done from 'a'. > > > You say "quite possible that people have machines deployed that boot > > from other RAID partitions" > > After 10+ years of it working, do you really think that nobody has > ever done it?
The way you write, it sounds personal.
