Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 16:05:53 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian> To: bde, hackers Subject: early warning of DEVFS/SLICE mayhem Message-ID: <199504302305.QAA06393@freefall.cdrom.com>
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I'm going to (as soon as it settles down) perform major mayhem on the slice code. I will subit my changes to bruce, but be aware that tehy are coming.. This is for two reasons.. 1/ I need functionallity that isn't there 2/ to make it work with DEVFS better the major change will be the breaking out of 'type handlers' for each slice type. I need to write a type handler fro MACH2.5 type slices, so I can cross mount my mach 2.5 partitions.. I believe this may also work for ISC sysV and other type 99 users as well. (but am unsure) each level will also be resonsible for it's own /devfs entries as well if slice 0 is BSD and slice 2 is MACH2.5 /devs/disks/sd0s0[a-h] will be assigned by tha 386BSD handler /devs/disks/sd0s2[a-p] will be assigned by tha MACH handler (there are 16 partitions under MACH) (I'm not quite sure how I'll attack that but I may grab a couple of bits from the top byte) (ideas?) julian
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