From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 21 21:15:27 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA01047 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 21:15:27 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA01041 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 21:15:22 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA28518; Mon, 21 Aug 95 22:15:44 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508220415.AA28518@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 22:15:44 MDT Cc: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <22246.809061857@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 21, 95 08:24:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Would it be reasonable to assume that our current boot code will never > have a chance of dealing with the root partition via a "slice?" No. That's just an implementation detail. It's a trivial change, even in the current code. I hate the idea of "partitions" vs. "slices". The terminology has become extremely muddied, which is probably the root of your callers' confusion. Device names are rarely visible enough to cause questions. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.