From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 6 11:41:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA01662 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:41:41 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA01654 ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:41:32 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA07364; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:40:40 +0800 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:40:39 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Peter Dufault cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install bug for big minor numbers In-Reply-To: <199506061156.HAA16560@hda.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Peter Dufault wrote: > > How is /dev being created, Jordan? MAKEDEV will do it properly. > Are all the slices coming out OK? They use those bits too. The /dev entries *are* being extracted out of the bindist (perhaps over top of whatever MAKEDEV had created), but the minor numbers for disk slices are low enough not to be affected (so it seems). Otherwise, I imagine that mount(8) would complain about an invalid device when trying to bring up your filesystems. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org