From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 8 21:43:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06204 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:43:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06194 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15964; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 02:42:34 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199803090542.CAA15964@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Important change warning. (long version) In-Reply-To: <199803090249.SAA12529@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 8, 98 06:49:34 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 02:42:33 -0300 (EST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Mike Smith) // The "compatability slice" feature is a historic leftover, and it will be // phased out in the next major release of FreeBSD. Currently, the only // use of the compatability slice is when booting, where the root // filesystem is mounted from the 'a' partition via the compatability slice // rather than the correct slice. It has also the beauty of not remembering me that my preferred system is sharing disk with other one (which I don't want to name, but I have to use it for games. :) ). I have always done exactly the opposite of what you are suggesting. All my BSD partitions run in compatibility mode. The first thing I usually do after installing a new system is edit /etc/fstab and change the mess create by sysinstall. What's the problem in maintaining the current behaviour ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message