From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 30 11:34:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00775 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:34:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00753 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01094; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:30:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803301930.LAA01094@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Fieber cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on 2.2.6 upgrade In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:55:41 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:30:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Is this behavior a bug or a feature? > > > > I think it's a feature. > > You sound so certain! :) > > There should be a bit of explaination if it is a feature because > if I need to create sd1s1[a-h]: > > sh MAKEDEV sd1 doesn't work, > sh MAKEDEV sd1s1 doesn't work, but > sh MAKEDEV sd1s1a does work. > > It is plausible that the first form not working is a feature, but > I'm not convinced that the second form not working is a feature. > That the third form generates sd1s1[a-h] is counter-intuitive to > say the least. Bruce pointed out that to create all the device nodes for sd0 you would be looking at 32 slices * 8 partitions * block/char = 512 nodes. Agreed, "./MAKEDEV sd1s1" intuitively should produce the partition nodes. Fixes would be gladly accepted, as long as they preserve the current behaviour. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message