Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:49:15 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: next stages in devfs Message-ID: <1567.893353755@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:24:00 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980420235954.20470C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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>* There needs to be a handler for extended DOS partitions. > I need a tester for that too.. :-) > >What is a good naming scheme for extended partitions? >an extended partition in sd0s1 would start sd0s1x1 as a suggestion No, we should stick with the current scheme where they are called sd0s5, sd0s6 ... They are not as general as their on-disk structure may lead you to belive: in reality they are just a linked list of partitions. We should also start to add slicers for Mac, Sun and other such layouts. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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