Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:51:46 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, nate@sri.MT.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFV: adding phk_malloc to -stable Message-ID: <199603190151.MAA25896@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I would just like to remember that the introduction of slices left >> a bunch of disk-related stuff broken for a long time (I'd say >> between 2.0.5 and 2.1), and gave the final shot to msdosfs, which >> in turn caused some coexistence problems with msdos systems. Wrong. Slices were introduced into -current shortly after 2.0R, before 2.0.5 or -stable existed. Slices fixed coexistence problems with msdos systems. See the cvs history. >And the slice support was only brought into -stable after much gnashing >of teeth ... Wrong. See above. >... and incredible PR by the release engineer. After all, he's the >guy who is responsible for making the release. Right :-). He had to write a lot of code to fully exploit the features of the slice interface. Bruce
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