From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 30 08:37:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28852 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28843 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA28315; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:37:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA07151; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:37:13 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:37:13 -0700 Message-Id: <199803301637.JAA07151@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Fieber Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on 2.2.6 upgrade In-Reply-To: References: <24370.891241853@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Is this behavior a bug or a feature? > > > > I think it's a feature. > > You sound so certain! :) I agree with Jordan. > There should be a bit of explaination if it is a feature because > if I need to create sd1s1[a-h]: > > sh MAKEDEV sd1 doesn't work, > sh MAKEDEV sd1s1 doesn't work, but > sh MAKEDEV sd1s1a does work. > > It is plausible that the first form not working is a feature, but > I'm not convinced that the second form not working is a feature. Why not. On my box 'sd1s1' is *NOT* a FreeBSD partition. > That the third form generates sd1s1[a-h] is counter-intuitive to > say the least. Ok, but that doesn't make the second form any more intuitive. IMHO, just because a slice is built doesn't mean it should contain FreeBSD partition entries. I think the current code as written does the right thing, in that it assumes that if you need any partition entries, you might as well get them all. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message