Date: 16 Aug 1998 12:11:08 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: jdp@polstra.com, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Funky DEVFS stuff. Message-ID: <xzp67ft44oz.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Sun, 16 Aug 1998 05:56:13 %2B1000" References: <199808151956.FAA24483@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: > > Also, 'b' used to be magic (reserved for swap) in some Unix variants. > > Not for us, right? > It is conventionally reserved for swap in FreeBSD too. It is a bit > more than conventionally reserved for kernel dumps in FreeBSD - > dumps are not permitted on devices whose minor is 1 modulo 8 (see > kern_shutdown.c:dumpsys() and autoconf.c:setdumpdev()). Except on DEVFS/SLICE systems, where this check is commented out since the minor numbers are not as predictable. By the way, how much work would it be to make using more than 8 partitions per slice possible? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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