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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:37:42 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        michaelv@headcandy.com, darrenr@cyber.com.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, port-i386@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Incompatible slices.
Message-ID:  <199602270637.HAA02281@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602261859.KAA01560@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Feb 26, 96 10:59:11 am

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As Jason Thorpe wrote:

>   I think the FreeBSD notion of "slices" is what's 
> created by the DOS partition table.  FreeBSD get's a "slice" of the disk 
> (we call this the "NetBSD portion of the disk") and partitions it up.  
> 
> This is based on quick scans of the FreeBSD code ... I could be totally 
> wrong.

You're absolutely right.  There used to be a ``README.slices'' someday
explaining this...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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