From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 09:28:17 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA13733 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:28:17 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13727 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:28:15 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id JAA11888; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:28:05 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503161728.JAA11888@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:28:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503161621.AA23319@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 16, 95 09:21:23 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 617 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > No. The slice code will do this the right way. On device in /dev > > for each logical area of the disk. > > I think the number of devices that would be needed to describe all > extended partitions on a fully segregated drive would make this > impossible. > > ... > > At the very least, this would require a move to 32 bit minor numbers, > even if each controller got it's own major number. Have you seen the sources recently ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'