Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 09:16:20 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detecting devfs from userland? Message-ID: <199712011716.JAA17003@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971201002926.10529B-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Dec 1, 97 00:34:09 am"
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Julian Elischer writes: > On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > I think people expect to find their disk listed as: /dev/foobar3 > > > not as /dev/disk/scsi3/unit3/lun2/partion4 > > > > What's wrong with having both? That is, let /dev/sd0s1 be a symlink > > to /dev/sd0/slice1. Symlinks could also help the sd0a -> sd0s1a problem. > > but sd0a is a different thing to sd0s1a.. > sd0a has a specific meaning.. > it's shorthand for: > sd0/partitonA > where sd0s1a is shorthand for; > sd0/slice1/partitionA > they imply something. I'm talking about the "compatibility slice" or whatever. E.g., on my machine: /dev/sd0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0s2e /usr ufs rw 1 2 /dev/sd0s2f /var ufs rw 1 2 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 Isn't /dev/sd0a really /dev/sd0s1a here? That is, sd0 has a normal partition table. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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