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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:00:36 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sd0[a-h], are they still needed? 
Message-ID:  <199803302000.MAA01229@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:57:25 %2B0200." <199803301757.TAA13428@intern> 

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> Will the /dev entries sd0[a-h] still be supported in the future? I still

Yes.  They represent partitions on a disk which (effectively) does not 
have a slice table.

> use them on my non-root disks because they are shorter and IMHO easier
> to read. 

If these disks have valid slice tables, this usage is incorrect, and
will probably not work with 3.0.  There will likely not be any changes
prior to 3.0 that will affect this usage however.

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