Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:02:45 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah), Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c Message-ID: <200210251102.g9PB2jwM066925@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1035491000.47429@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200210251102.g9PB2jwM066925>