Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 19:36:22 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jfieber@indiana.edu, nate@mt.sri.com Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on 2.2.6 upgrade Message-ID: <199804010936.TAA10027@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Aye, but my historical precedence point was that ever since I can >remember, partitions within a disk-like device are created >automatically by passing just the device and unit to MAKEDEV. To >this day this is the behavior for basically all devices *except* >slices--look at cd, fd, ccd, and vn for instance. ... That's because cd, fd, ccd, matcd, mcd, scd and wcd are broken :-). vn is handled like the other sliced devices. Partitions are created for the compatibility slice and the fd, ccd and foocd devices because historically the "whole disk" device is just a partition (the C partition, except on the tahoe it is the A partition and under 386BSD and related systems it is the D partition). Floppies and cd's have evil aliases for the A and C partitions for compatibility. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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