Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:59:11 -0800 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@headcandy.com> Cc: darrenr@cyber.com.au, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. Message-ID: <199602261859.KAA01560@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:32:00 -0800 "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> wrote: > >I'd like to report that partition slices in FreeBSD 2.1.0 and NetBSD 1.1 > >aren't 100% compatible. > > I wasn't aware NetBSD even *had* "slices". AFAIK, we *don't*. I think the FreeBSD notion of "slices" is what's created by the DOS partition table. FreeBSD get's a "slice" of the disk (we call this the "NetBSD portion of the disk") and partitions it up. This is based on quick scans of the FreeBSD code ... I could be totally wrong. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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