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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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