Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:31:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Harry Starr <starr3@gccs.com.au>, current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: disk slices and MAKEDEV confusion Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990524212904.23719A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905241618.JAA22046@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > The problem is that if you made all of the nodes for all of the > supported slices, /dev would be incredibly bloated. There are 8 > potential nodes per slice, and 20 potential slices per disk, plus the > compatability slice, so that's 168 node pairs (raw and buffered) > _per_disk_. > According to the information in sys/diskslice.h, there are 32 slices per disk, including the compatibility slice and the base slice. Am I right? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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