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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:15:25 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: attila@hun.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT
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>    in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
>
>options         ROOTDEVNAME=\"da0s2e\"
>
>    must be specified as:
>
>options         ROOTDEVNAME="da0s2e"
>
>    else 'make depend' loses the string. w/o quotes it's just an
>    undefined.  parser change to eliminate quote requirements
>    for config file defines obviated need for hard quotes in
>    ROOTDEVNAME>. "config" does not grok the errors.

No.  At least in -current, the former works, but latter gives no quotes
in opt_rootdevname.h and thus a syntax error in autoconf.c.

>    am one of those who suffers from lack of politically correct
>    attitude -- I dont do M$lop (refuse to), so why should I
>    worry about slices? never need slices before M$lop....  however,
>    that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large
>    partitions take performance hits.  
>
>    alternative is to change MAXPARTITIONS?  to 16?

One reason is that the slice data format is better.  It doesn't have
arbitrary limits like 8 or 16 (it's essentially a linked list).

Bruce


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