From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 09:56:36 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA16307 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:56:36 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA16301 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:56:34 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA23662; Thu, 16 Mar 95 10:49:05 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503161749.AA23662@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 95 10:49:04 MST Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503161728.JAA11888@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 16, 95 09:28:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 ? I realize that the mode to 32 bit minors has been "in the works". I also remember seeing a recent problem with booting diskless off an Alpha box which supports 32 bit minors from a BSD box that did not. Since it was only several days ago, you should be able to grep it out of your news spool and tell them how to fix it without their kludge of redoing the MAKEDEV that they used as a workaround. Unless it's not all there yet... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.