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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


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