Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 04:30:53 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? Message-ID: <199704291130.EAA13071@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:46:02 %2B1000." <199704291046.UAA28580@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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>On a related topic, the disk device numbers are arrange in an ugly >way, presumably for backward compatibilty reasons. Are these reasons >still valid? Yes. >Oh, and the existing dkmakeminor() doesn't handle unit > 31, though >dkunit() does. I presume nobody has 32 or more disks. I haven't! That's very definately a bug. I don't know how I overlooked that when I attempted to add support for sd units >31, but obviously I did. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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