From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 26 11:04:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08461 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA08328 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA01560; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:59:13 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602261859.KAA01560@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Cc: darrenr@cyber.com.au, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:59:11 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:32:00 -0800 "Michael L. VanLoon -- 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