Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:43:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My problems with GEOM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210091742110.15098-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <26574.1034191373@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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 Better than nothing. I am fine with this. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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