Subject: Re: dev_t changes & partitions
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/14/1998 12:33:06
> Have we even decided that we want "slices"?  I don't want to propagate MBR
> braindamage to ports that don't have to deal with it..

I'd vote we want slices for MBR drives and not for everything else.

> I have other ideas on this subject, and it's completely orthogonal to
> new dev_t's... so let's just drop the "slice" talk for now :-)

I agree it's an orthogonal project, but we should think about it enough
to get the unit/partition split right.

Take care,

Bill