Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:15:31 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on 2.2.6 upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331120545.8294H-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803301937.MAA07704@mt.sri.com>
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > Sure it does. There is a well established historical precedent > > of supplying MAKEDEV with the name and unit of a disk-like > > device, either physical or logical, to create partitions a-h > > logically contained within that device. Maybe I'm just whacked, > > but a slice sure seems like a disk-like device to me. > > But it's not. The 'historical precedence' changed at FreeBSD 2.0, so > I'd say there's a long historical precedence for *NOT* behaving this > way. :) Hmm... Just pulled out a FreeBSD 1.1 CDROM and a "MAKEDEV sd1" makes all partions a-h under sd1. I think my historical precedence point remains intact. Or at least the point I had in mind does; you may well have read something slightly different--I make no claims as to the clarity of my prose. > > MAKEDEV sd1 creates sd1[a-h]. A well established behavior. > > I would argue that it shouldn't now. It should only create the > partitions if you give it: > > MAKEDEV sd1a I won't disagree here at all, I'd just like to see a bit of consistency and documentation. Which way it goes, I really don't care. I'll even contribute some patches if I get a chance. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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