>> No, it doesn't have to be SLICE. In particular, if we're going the >> SLICE way, it should be done >right<, and Julians SLICE code didn't >> do that. (I know, I spent close to 6 months prototyping the concept >> and julian had my code to work from). > >Wouldn't it be possible to fit this into the device system? If we treat >disks as devices and partition types as drivers, most of the boring work >of matching drivers to devices and keeping lists and trees of objects will >happen automatically.
Well, as long as you remember that it is not a strict hierarchy: I could slice two disks, mirror the slices and concatenate the mirrors if I wanted to. It's not tricky to get it right, once you know where the pitfalls are, the trick is to get it right AND make it elegant. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
