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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, nate@sri.MT.net
Subject: Re: CFV: adding phk_malloc to -stable
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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