Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 20:48:31 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dufault@hda.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more than 32 disks? Message-ID: <199701040948.UAA30811@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>A related question: are there issues (regarding booting, etc) with >removing all partition/slice/ file system code from the different >device drivers and having a single "dk" device that gets wired to >the other block devices? Essentially have the base device be a >trusting client of a dk device that handles all that stuff. It makes things a little easier for the boot code. I think the main problems are that dk0 (sd0) gets would get renumbered to dk1 (sd0) when wd0 is also installed :-), and if you fix this by wiring down the drive numbers then you may lose uniformity by encoding the driver names in the device names. Bruce
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