JB <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> writes: > ... It is apparent that Linux, besides some minor bugs detected here, handles *BSD file systems in an awkward way. I say *BSD, as I assume that the FreeBSD test results probably appply to OpenBSD and NetBSD as well due to similarity in their partition/slices structure of their installations. The issue is clear: Linux kernel assigning device names to *BSD slices following those already taken by Linux may cause serious problems when disk space is shared by both OSs, e.g. # fdisk -l /dev/sda ... /dev/sda1 63 81920159 40960048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 * 81920160 111222719 14651280 a5 FreeBSD ... /dev/sda9 216715023 246017519 14651248+ 83 Linux # dmesg | grep bsd [ 1.550749] sda2: <bsd: sda10 sda11 sda12 sda13 sda14 > Handling fellow UNIX OSs well in Linux's space should be a priority. What are your ideas about solving this issue ? They could be passed to some senior devs and many younger hot shots who could attack this problem soon. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
