From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 16 08:22:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28197 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28191 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA13648; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:22:03 +1000 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:22:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199809161522.BAA13648@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: abial@nask.pl, root@nihil.plaut.de Subject: Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken... Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, tat@Spline.NET Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> being perfect, but it worked most of the time. Perhaps it would be better >> to leave this code in the tree, including short note discouraging its >> use, instead of completely nuking it without any replacement... >Yes. >I had one situation where the SLICE-code rejected a bogus disklabel (correctly) >whereas the former stuff accepted it without complaining. I think you mean a bogus partition table. Bogus partition tables are supposed to be accepted. Boot with -v and turn on warning messages for slice initialization (set dsi_debug to 1 using gdb) to get warnings about bogus partition tables. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message