From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 21 22:22:00 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA03282 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:22:00 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA03276 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 22:21:58 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA24405; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:21:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA02716 for current@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:21:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA09966 for current@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:17:37 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508220517.HAA09966@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:17:37 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9508220415.AA28518@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 21, 95 10:15:44 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 617 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)