Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world brokenbuilding fortunes ) )

[Matthew Jacob]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
> >"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> >> 
> >> Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is
> >> that it needs a persistent backing store for this.  Sounds like this C
> >> program could fullfill one of the missing parts of devfs :-)
> 
> A "devd" program would solve 98% of what devfs could solve.  It cannot
> solve the homebrew-a-vnode-for-the-root-fs problem.  FreeBSD needs a
> "devd" program *anyway* because what good is dynamic devices if you
> can't do something intelligent with them when they appear (mount/ifconfig
> etc etc etc).

I mostly agree with you. I tend to also not worry terribly much about
root-fs type issues, except that I keep being told by *my* customers that
this is what they want, particularly for large SANs.




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