Messages in this thread | | | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: devfs | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:48:01 +0100 (MET) |
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> > 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.
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