Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:00:52 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. Message-ID: <9508221800.AA00894@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508220517.HAA09966@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 22, 95 07:17:37 am
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> > No. That's just an implementation detail. > > > > It's a trivial change, even in the current code. > > Except for the space issues. I'm confused -- you mean name-space issues? The root device name is a uniformity of naming issue when the mounted device name is copied into the superblock. > > I hate the idea of "partitions" vs. "slices". The terminology has become > > extremely muddied, which is probably the root of your callers' confusion. > > Device names are rarely visible enough to cause questions. > > They are visible in the `df' or `mount' list. (The root file system > has been mounted automatically.) I can't believe someone who runs 'df' and 'mount' would find *any* device name confusing -- a device is a device, it's the major and minor numbers that are important. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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