Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 08:31:51 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: archie@whistle.com, dholland@cs.toronto.edu, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <7171.906791511@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 11:37:40 %2B1000." <199809260137.LAA16175@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199809260137.LAA16175@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>> 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). ...Which was one of the most wrong things about it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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