I have been watching the escalation of this HEADS UP and must admit that I've become more confused than I was before. So I will add some more confusion myself ;-)

It seems that, for now, 'make world' in -stable sets -DROOTSLICE_HUNT to maintain downward compatibility in the mount source files. Good.

It also appears, though, that /dev/MAKEDEV only makes the [a-h] partitions for s0, so this might be why some people are having problems booting with their "new /etc/fstab" (in fact, I believe this would happen when their root partition is not on slice 0).

I've tracked this feature of MAKEDEV back to revision 1.76: $ co -r1.76 -p MAKEDEV,v |grep s0h MAKEDEV,v --> standard output revision 1.76 for slicepartname in s0h s1 s2 s3 s4 $ co -r1.75 -p MAKEDEV,v |grep s0h MAKEDEV,v --> standard output revision 1.75

Where we read this comment: revision 1.76 date: 1995/03/04 12:22:14; author: bde; state: Exp; lines: +56 -70 For sd, vn and wd:

Support sliced devices better. E.g.: `sh MAKEDEV sd0' creates [r]sd0 and [r]sd0s[1-4] as well as [r]sd0[a-h] (the extra devices created by default won't hurt apart from wasting inodes). `sh MAKEDEV sd0s1[a-h]' creates [r]sd0s1[a-h] (any partition creates all). `sh MAKEDEV sd0s5' creates [r]sd0s5.

Support unit numbers 0-31 (was 0-6).

Note, in particular, that '(cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV all)' will not make the [a-h] partitions on any slices > 0.

Maybe it's time to change the line

for slicepartname in s0h s1 s2 s3 s4

to

for slicepartname in s0h s1h s2h s3h s4h

so that /dev/MAKEDEV makes the [a-h] /dev entries for all slices?

Adrian

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