From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 24 18:20:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27667 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27643 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA05502; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma005500; Thu Sep 24 18:20:31 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id SAA04444; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:20:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199809250120.SAA04444@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) In-Reply-To: <98Sep24.165248edt.37912-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu> from David Holland at "Sep 24, 98 04:52:44 pm" To: dholland@cs.toronto.edu (David Holland) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: peter@netplex.com.au, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Holland writes: > My perspective on this is that disklabels and partitions are a > protozoic kind of file system -- essentially, that the way to think > about what needs to happen is that you need to mount `partitionfs' on > the device /dev/wd0. This `mount' then supplies the other wd0* devices. > (Whether it goes through the same code path as normal filesystem > mounts, or looks at all like them, is unimportant. Bear with me.) > > This view of the world has two immediate consequences: > 1) partition handling should be independent from disk drivers. > 2) probing for partitions becomes relatively straightforward. This is just the idea that is realized by SLICE. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message