From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 00:56:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA00661 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:56:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA00535 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA24550 for FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:53:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA22562; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:31:21 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:31:21 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping References: <199701092331.PAA09721@ipro.com> <199701100213.TAA19154@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701100213.TAA19154@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 9, 1997 19:13:47 -0700 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > I happen to agree with Ken here. > > When will devfs be standard so we can implement physical to logical > translation layers and make this whole problem go away? That's only one part of the story. You still have to understand the difference between slices, partitions, filesystems, and mounting. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)