Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 21:22:53 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My problems with GEOM Message-ID: <26574.1034191373@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:38:53 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210091035090.14413-100000@root.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210091035090.14413-100000@root.org>, Nate Lawson wri tes: >On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:47:06PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> > It still can't even mount root for my configurations. This is because >> > it breaks compatibility by dropping support for the devices on the >> > first FreeBSD slice being named without a slice number (e.g., ad0a is >> > named ad0a, not ad0s<machine-dependent slice number>a). >> >> Also SCSI CDROM's are now only mountable as /dev/cd0, not /dev/cd0a as >> before. I wonder how many others got hit by that. > >PHK, please add back the old BSD partition types. Too many of my >utilities and scripts depend on them. It's a very useful idiom to >address the first FreeBSD slice on a disk. I'd prefer not to if we can avoid it, but I'll offer this patch as a sort of POLA-disturbing middle-ground: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/cd.patch -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?26574.1034191373>