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- > I'm sure more people than me have thought about adding the Amiga
- > filesystems to NetBSD. This implies that Amiga partitions must get
- > their own device nodes in /dev, which they don't today. Now, how
- > should we arrange for them to get this? The easiest thing would be
- > a straight mapping of the PARTs as specified by the RDB, but that would
- > be backward incompatible. Another way would be to tag all non-BSD
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- Not only, we'd lose the nice flexibility to reorder partitions without
- BSD knowing, ie. mount from another root, have another usr, etc.
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- > partitions with a dedicated bit in the minor number, aren't bit 6 & 7
- > available? If we just decide on a convention, I can/will implement it.
-
- Hm, some bits are used for LUNs, could be 6&7..
-
- But we could use them.. who needs luns anyway:-)
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