Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:30:02 -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.3.96.980331121859.8294I-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199803311717.KAA11305@mt.sri.com>
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On Tue, 31 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 > > 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. Aye, but my historical precedence point was that ever since I can remember, partitions within a disk-like device are created automatically by passing just the device and unit to MAKEDEV. To this day this is the behavior for basically all devices *except* slices--look at cd, fd, ccd, and vn for instance. The historical precedent has nothing to do with slices--it predates slices. Now we have slices and the historical behavior of automatically making partitions continues with "MAKEDEV sd1" which makes sd1[a-h], along with the slice entries. *If* that is the desired behavior, then it follows that "MAKEDEV sd1s1" should make sd1s1[a-h], the partitions within the slice. Note that this does *not* mean that "MAKEDEV sd1" makes all partitions within slices. Arguments against this behavior are reasonable. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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