From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 5:15:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B728137B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 05:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39CF43E3B for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 05:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g99CFJpS051295; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:15:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: Seth Hieronymus , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My problems with GEOM In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:21:51 +1000." <20021009213450.K4967-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:15:19 +0200 Message-ID: <51294.1034165719@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021009213450.K4967-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >> All you have to do is edit your /etc/fstab. > >Not so. I would have to edit fstab back and forth to boot various >kernels, and would also have to use devfs or MAKEDEV to get all the >sliced devices created, and change boot loaders back and forth to >get the slice number passed in a way that is recognized by all >kernels of interest (or change ROOTDEVNAMES back and forth) .... Yes, you might in fact risk being dragged (kicking and screaming I'm sure) into the middle nineties. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message