From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 10:38:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77EF37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B93943E42 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:38:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 14491 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Oct 2002 17:38:53 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:38:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My problems with GEOM In-Reply-To: <20021009151926.GA19223@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:47:06PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > It still can't even mount root for my configurations. This is because > > it breaks compatibility by dropping support for the devices on the > > first FreeBSD slice being named without a slice number (e.g., ad0a is > > named ad0a, not ad0sa). > > Also SCSI CDROM's are now only mountable as /dev/cd0, not /dev/cd0a as > before. I wonder how many others got hit by that. PHK, please add back the old BSD partition types. Too many of my utilities and scripts depend on them. It's a very useful idiom to address the first FreeBSD slice on a disk. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message