Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:37:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: michaelv@headcandy.com, darrenr@cyber.com.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. Message-ID: <199602270637.HAA02281@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602261859.KAA01560@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Feb 26, 96 10:59:11 am
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As Jason Thorpe wrote: > 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. You're absolutely right. There used to be a ``README.slices'' someday explaining this... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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