Subject: Re: new disklabels - part2
To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/22/1999 18:48:06
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> > I have put all mails on the subject from tech-kern (from januari 1998
> > already) in http://www.wins.uva.nl/~frank/wedge.txt
>
> Finally got around to reading this last night.
>
> I believe the problem of assigning drivers to disk partitions is very
> similar (if not operationally equivalent) to the problem of managing
> device nodes for USB and PCMCIA and any other hot-pluggable hierarchy
> of devices.
>
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0
> raw0 at sd0 lun 0
> mbr0 at raw0
> dosfs0 at mbr0 partition 0
> dosfs1 at mbr0 partition 1
> bsdlabel0 at mbr0 partition 3
> ffs0 at bsdlabel0 partition 0
> swap0 at bsdlabel0 partition 1
> ffs1 at bsdlabel0 partition 4
>
> /dev/ffs0 / ffs rw
> /dev/ffs1 /usr ffs rw
> /dev/swap0 none swap
> /dev/dosfs0 /c msdos ro
> /dev/dosfs1 /d msdos ro
>
> Hmm?
While I'll agree that there are elements of that hierarchy there, I don't
think this'd gain us anything. :-) Now we'd have to wire partitions down
in the kernel config file!
Take care,
Bill