Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:03:37 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Jeff Shevlen <jeff@passedpawn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Block Devices Message-ID: <20031125010337.GA2499@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20031125003938.GA40730@pho88.net> References: <20031125003938.GA40730@pho88.net>
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:39:38PM -0500, Jeff Shevlen wrote: > Hey, > > I've got a book that talks about block devices in Freebsd 3.4. I got > curious and went looking for some, but my 4.8 distro doesn't seem to > have any. When did they disappear? They disappeared from FreeBSD 4-CURRENT in Nov 1999. (So they aren't in any of the 4.x releases.) > Why did they leave? I am not sure, but if you check the archives for the freebsd-arch mailing list there was a long discussion about this in Oct. 1999 that might answer your question. > Will they > ever return? Unlikely. > I poked around in google and freebsd.org but didn't turn > anything up. Curious... Checking the CVS commitlogs and mailing-list can turn up quite a bit of information. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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