Re: devfs

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:51:07 +1100

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....