Subject: Re: loopback filesystem
To: None <joe@mediaone.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/1999 10:14:48
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Joseph Sarkes wrote:

> Bill Studenmund writes:
> > > for me. There is a man page that speaks about cd0d or something
> > > and I need to use cd0c or a as I recall.
> > 
> > What port are you running? On i386, for historical reasons, partition 'd'
> > is the whole-disk partition, whereas on (almost?) all other ports,
> > partition 'c' is the whole-disk partition.
> 
> aha... that explains the xx0d references. however, this is not
> clear from any docs I've come across. 

The we need to make it clearer. Can you cite places ith the wrong
terminology? We're starting the 1.4 release, and this would be a good
thing to catch. :-)

Take care,

Bill