From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 12:23:17 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 6FBDA37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21A743E4A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g99JMrpS026575; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:23:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Nate Lawson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My problems with GEOM In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:38:53 PDT." Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:22:53 +0200 Message-ID: <26574.1034191373@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message , Nate Lawson wri tes: >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. I'd prefer not to if we can avoid it, but I'll offer this patch as a sort of POLA-disturbing middle-ground: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/cd.patch -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message