Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:51:07 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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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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