Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:17:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. Message-ID: <199508220517.HAA09966@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9508220415.AA28518@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 21, 95 10:15:44 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > No. That's just an implementation detail. > > It's a trivial change, even in the current code. Except for the space issues. > 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. They are visible in the `df' or `mount' list. (The root file system has been mounted automatically.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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