From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 15 22:44:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17243 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17238 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03017; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:44:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd002920; Wed Jul 15 22:44:00 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA13103; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:43:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807160543.WAA13103@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Bug in kernel disklabel code? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 05:43:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, rock@cs.uni-sb.de In-Reply-To: <199807152331.JAA25461@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 16, 98 09:31:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Nothing much happens if you don't use these partitions. They used to > be normally unused (there is no good reason to access the slice for > the extended partition), but now the slice initialization code attempts > to find all labels on all slices so that it can create devfs device > nodes. I argued with Julian that there should be a preferred search order, and a preferred type at each level. I was unable to come up with a concrete example, except for a generic partitioning tool that would recognize all partition types, and be happy to manage them all. I'm sorry it's a problem for the poster, but I'm glad that someone has come up with a concrete example showing that a lack of preference order is a bad thing in at least one real-world situation... 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