Re: HEADS UP! Compatibility slice will no longer point at the first BSD slice

["Yury Tarasievich" <yury.tarasievich@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/06/07, Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@telia.com> wrote:
> On 2007-06-17 11:09, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> > On 17/06/07, Bill Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
> >> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > ....
> >> W/R going GPT-way or legacy FreeBSD way - perhaps use of zeroth should
. ..
> >> I mean - with whom/what/(anything?) should DFLY try for compatibility?
> >
> > With common sense, maybe? :) Commonly, count starts from one, there's
> > no such thing as 0th item (except in some subcultures, that is :).
>
> Like the computer subculture :-) While it might not be what a person
> very new to computes might expect I would think that even they can
> figure out what 0 comes first of they see list of numbers like 0, 1, 2,
> even Windows starts numbering from 0 sometimes. And for someone who used
. ..
Yep, computer subculture was what I meant.

Now, I'm not exactly unexperienced, but I find the constant (and
inconsistent) mixing in of the "0th count" *in "consumer-used
numberings"* (like enums of the partitions, disks, devices etc.)
confusing.

If there's be going to be some major revamping of the numbering scheme
anyway, why not make it easier for the newbies?
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