From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 23 11:16:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25676 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:16:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25593 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01569; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:49:16 +0200 (CEST) To: Julian Elischer cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: next stages in devfs In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:24:00 PDT." Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:49:15 +0200 Message-ID: <1567.893353755@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >* 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