Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:16:46 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: early warning of DEVFS/SLICE mayhem Message-ID: <199505010516.PAA17351@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I'm going to (as soon as it settles down) perform major mayhem on the slice >code. >... >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) This will become very complicated. There also needs to be a layer to support a type handler for each slicing type (dsinit() is only for DOS partitions and shouldn't be called directly). There also needs to be a layer for unslicing (striping). Note that slices are supposed to be machine-independent and support for foreign labels as labels was not planned for. I hoped to handle all foreign labelling schemes by converting them to slices. This would require more slice bits, not more partition bits. Bruce
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