Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:18:53 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Harry Starr" <starr3@gccs.com.au> Cc: "current" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: disk slices and MAKEDEV confusion Message-ID: <199905241618.JAA22046@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 May 1999 23:28:12 %2B1000." <006901bea520$1b41dbb0$0a9811cb@gccs.com.au>
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> I am confused! > > The /boot/loader is "announcing" that it wants the root device to be > "da0s1a". > > It appears that the "normal" fstab entries want "sliced" versions as well, > eg. > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > > SO! Why does "sh MAKEDEV all" NOT make the partition entries for the > slice(s) ??? > > ie, "sh MAKEDEV all" only makes the "compatability" slice entries -- da0s1, > da0s2 etc. da0s1 is not a "compatibility slice" entry. That would be da0a, etc. The problem is that if you made all of the nodes for all of the supported slices, /dev would be incredibly bloated. There are 8 potential nodes per slice, and 20 potential slices per disk, plus the compatability slice, so that's 168 node pairs (raw and buffered) _per_disk_. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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