From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 22 10:59:14 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA06834 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:59:14 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA06828 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:59:12 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA00894; Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:00:52 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508221800.AA00894@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 12:00:52 MDT In-Reply-To: <199508220517.HAA09966@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 22, 95 07:17:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.