On Mon, 24 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > I am confused! > > > > The /boot/loader is "announcing" that it wants the root device to be > > "da0s1a". > > > > It appears that the "normal" fstab entries want "sliced" versions as well, > > eg. > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > > Pass# > > /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > > /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > > > > SO! Why does "sh MAKEDEV all" NOT make the partition entries for the > > slice(s) ??? > > > > ie, "sh MAKEDEV all" only makes the "compatability" slice entries -- da0s1, > > da0s2 etc. > > da0s1 is not a "compatibility slice" entry. That would be da0a, etc. > > The problem is that if you made all of the nodes for all of the > supported slices, /dev would be incredibly bloated. There are 8 > potential nodes per slice, and 20 potential slices per disk, plus the > compatability slice, so that's 168 node pairs (raw and buffered) > _per_disk_.
Yes, but you're going to make them manually anyway, so why not make 'MAKEDEV all' DTRT and not blindly hose people? I'll take bloat if it keeps people from asking -questions. Doug White Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
