From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 16 03:12:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21925 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 03:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21917 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 03:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no (2602@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.131]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id MAA00794; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 12:11:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 12:11:09 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Evans Cc: jdp@polstra.com, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Funky DEVFS stuff. References: <199808151956.FAA24483@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 16 Aug 1998 12:11:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Sun, 16 Aug 1998 05:56:13 +1000" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA21919 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans 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