Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 11:37:40 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: archie@whistle.com, dholland@cs.toronto.edu Cc: bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <199809260137.LAA16175@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> My perspective on this is that disklabels and partitions are a >> protozoic kind of file system -- essentially, that the way to think >> about what needs to happen is that you need to mount `partitionfs' on >> the device /dev/wd0. This `mount' then supplies the other wd0* devices. >> (Whether it goes through the same code path as normal filesystem >> mounts, or looks at all like them, is unimportant. Bear with me.) >> >> This view of the world has two immediate consequences: >> 1) partition handling should be independent from disk drivers. >> 2) probing for partitions becomes relatively straightforward. > >This is just the idea that is realized by SLICE. This is exactly the opposite of what is realized by SLICE. SLICE does the "mount" at a deep level of the drivers (in an interrupt handler). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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