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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: ATTENTION 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Feb 95 17:55:53 +1100."
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:12:35 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> The slice code will be mandatory but you won't see much evidence of
> it.  However, there is a lot of compatibility cruft to make the old
> devices work transparently.  I'd like this to go away soon.  Devices
> would have to be named differently in /etc/fstab and in config files,
> e.g., /dev/sd0s2a instead of /dev/sd0a if /dev/sd0s2 is the first BSD
> slice.  (The partitions on the first BSD slice in the DOSpartition
> table are aliased to /dev/[r]sd0[a-h].  This requires confusing

Well, as far as I'm concerned the flag day has already been called
and we can just do this in one jump.  Slow transitions can be just
as bad or worse than jumps, in my experience, and I'm keen to see this
go forward so that we can start relying on the slice code for the new
installation code.

					Jordan