From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 14:14:19 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 BF3B337B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8388543E65 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A752A88D; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Nate Lawson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My problems with GEOM In-Reply-To: <26574.1034191373@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:14:17 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20021009211417.69A752A88D@canning.wemm.org> 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 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , Nate Lawson w ri > 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 I think this is probably the best option. It avoids cluttering /dev, but still DTRT for built-in finger knowledge. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message