From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 31 09:18:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24361 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:18:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24347 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:18:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA06498; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:18:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA11305; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:17:57 -0700 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:17:57 -0700 Message-Id: <199803311717.KAA11305@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Fieber Cc: Nate Williams , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on 2.2.6 upgrade In-Reply-To: References: <199803301937.MAA07704@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > 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 FreeBSD 1.1 is not an issue, since there were no slices then. You must start when slices we're introduced, because all of the device name changes then. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message