Solaris partitions (was devfs)

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:33:13 +1100

Leonard N. Zubkoff 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?

I don't know. Perhaps someone who knows about x86/Solaris can tell us?

Regards,

Richard....