Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Lawson w ri > tes: > >On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:47:06PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> > It still can't even mount root for my configurations. This is because > >> > it breaks compatibility by dropping support for the devices on the > >> > first FreeBSD slice being named without a slice number (e.g., ad0a is > >> > named ad0a, not ad0s<machine-dependent slice number>a). > >> > >> Also SCSI CDROM's are now only mountable as /dev/cd0, not /dev/cd0a as > >> before. I wonder how many others got hit by that. > > > >PHK, please add back the old BSD partition types. Too many of my > >utilities and scripts depend on them. It's a very useful idiom to > >address the first FreeBSD slice on a disk. > > I'd prefer not to if we can avoid it, but I'll offer this patch > as a sort of POLA-disturbing middle-ground: > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/cd.patch
I think this is probably the best option. It avoids cluttering /dev, but still DTRT for built-in finger knowledge. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
