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To: Timo Geusch <freebsd@timog.prestel.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:43:55 +0100."
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:11:44 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Timo Geusch wrote:
> Thanks to all that replied with suggestions about what I did wrong. Problem
> turned out to be that I was running an initially empty /dev (which worked
> great with SLICE, btw). Of course a non-SLICE kernel would blow sky high...
> I also got the point that I should've read cvs-all. However, <flame bait>
> I really would've appreciated if Soeren would have warned the 'current'
> audience about the upcoming removal of the SLICE code. </flame bait>

I for one am rather pissed off about the removal of SLICE.

In particular, it's crippled a critical part of devfs at mountroot time, 
although I'd argue that the parts that I'm most annoyed about the loss of 
should have really been part of the DEVFS option than part of "SLICE".  
The really sad part is that the existing geometry system isn't really up 
to the task of booting without a real /dev.  (ie: can't access /dev/da0s1a 
via devfs to mount root unless an access to /dev/da0s1 happens first)

> Timo,
> who is happy again that his CURRENT box is running and that the kernel page
> fault he was debugging turned out to be SLICE related.

Cheers,
-Peter




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