Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:17:57 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on 2.2.6 upgrade Message-ID: <199803311717.KAA11305@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331120545.8294H-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> References: <199803301937.MAA07704@mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980331120545.8294H-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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> > > Sure it does. There is a well established historical precedent > > > of supplying MAKEDEV with the name and unit of a disk-like > > > device, either physical or logical, to create partitions a-h > > > logically contained within that device. Maybe I'm just whacked, > > > but a slice sure seems like a disk-like device to me. > > > > But it's not. The 'historical precedence' changed at FreeBSD 2.0, so > > I'd say there's a long historical precedence for *NOT* behaving this > > way. :) > > Hmm... Just pulled out a FreeBSD 1.1 CDROM FreeBSD 1.1 is not an issue, since there were no slices then. You must start when slices we're introduced, because all of the device name changes then. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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