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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:22:03 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        abial@nask.pl, root@nihil.plaut.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, tat@Spline.NET
Subject:   Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken...
Message-ID:  <199809161522.BAA13648@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> being perfect, but it worked most of the time. Perhaps it would be better
>> to leave this code in the tree, including short note discouraging its
>> use, instead of completely nuking it without any replacement...
>Yes.
>I had one situation where the SLICE-code rejected a bogus disklabel (correctly) 
>whereas the former stuff accepted it without complaining.

I think you mean a bogus partition table.  Bogus partition tables are
supposed to be accepted.  Boot with -v and turn on warning messages for
slice initialization (set dsi_debug to 1 using gdb) to get warnings
about bogus partition tables.

Bruce

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