Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:23:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Funky DEVFS stuff. Message-ID: <199808152123.OAA23045@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808151709.KAA17856@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Aug 15, 98 10:09:20 am
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> > The 'c' partition is "Magic" (for now) The c partition is magic for hysterical raisons of spanning the whole disk. It's there fore cruft like disklabel and partitioning programs that operate on the whole disk, but don't use ioctl()'s to do it (obviously, if a label is useful, the kernel already has a model of it, and user space code dependent on c is just duplicating effort). > Is 'd' still magic too? I seem to recall that it was magic once upon > a time. But not any more, right? The d partition was magic because it used to span the whole FreeBSD area. Now we trust the DOS parittion table (or ourselves, if we are in "dangerously without a second stage boot record" mode. > Also, 'b' used to be magic (reserved for swap) in some Unix variants. > Not for us, right? See the disklabel. The use of swap is dictated by the "partition" type field. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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