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DateThu, 15 Jan 1998 18:51:07 +1100
FromRichard Gooch <>
SubjectRe: devfs
Jakub Jelinek writes:
> > 
> >   Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:04:34 +1100
> >   From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU>
> > 
> >   I guess I could live with that. It would actually bring things more
> >   into line with Solaris 2 (except that we have a bus identifier as
> >   well).
> >   However, since you raise this again, Leonard, what about the issue of
> >   slices within a partition? It appears that Solaris two places multiple
> >   slices inside a standard MS-DOS-style partition. What would you
> >   suggest to handle that? How about:
> >   /dev/sd/c0b0t0d0p1s6  :-)
> > 
> > Ugh.  I sure hope we don't need both "p" and "s".  My only Solaris experience
> > is on the SPARC, and there's no "p" in use there.  Do we really need both?
> 
> In fact, current partition code in linux won't use it anyway, if it existed.
> And I haven't seen such setup either and I think it doesn't make much sense
> to use both types of partitions on one disk, although it is technically
> possible.

But does that mean Linux can't see Solaris slices?

				Regards,

					Richard....
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