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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
> Date: Thu 24 Oct, 2002
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c

> As far as the naming scheme (ad0s1t2u3w4a etc.) is concerned,
> it is all a hack (historical or not)!  It does not follow the
> One True Hack (pathnames).  Years ago (even before the
> Moronic Boot Record was invented) in a level1 boot I used
> 
>     <device-name>/<slot>/<partition>/<root-relative-pathname>
> 
> or some such syntax to select what to boot.  For example,
> 
>     wd/0/a/kernel
> 
> instead of wd(0,a)/kernel.  Made perfect sense to me: if you
> have a name-space you name else you index what comes next and
> recurse.  Makes even more sense so when you can have a
> stackable disk sub-system.

/dev/motherboard/pcibus/0/pcib/0/pci/0/7/0/ahc/0/0/0/0/da/0/4/a/kernel,
anyone?  :-)

		Cheers,

		Mark.

-- 
Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk>       <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."       Mark Valentine uses
"We're kind of stupid that way."   *munch* *munch*        and endorses FreeBSD
  -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>                  <http://www.freebsd.org>

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