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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Fun with slices and partitions
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:02:41 -0700
Organization: Me
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Bruce Evans wrote:
] In article <uybk7b3br.fsf@losira.ppe.bb-data.de>,
] Martin Ibert <mib@bb-data.de> wrote:
] >In article <SCOTT.96Jul16124600@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
scott@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell) writes:
] >
] >: Yep, wrong way around. Four _slices_ per disk (what DOS
] >: fdisk calls partitions), and a bunch of BSD _partitions_
] >: in each slice (8, IIRC).
] >
] >*sigh* Yes, strangely enough, FreeBSD choose to pervert the
] >well-established name hierarchy of top-level partitions and
] >second-level slices and do it the other way around.
]
] How would you do it?
By unifying the representation space for all current and future
partitioning schema using "device arrival" callbacks in a DEVFS
framework?
8-P. 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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