Well, since I don't own libdisk(3) and had no idea why you'd be addressing this to me unless you were still confused, I presumed you were confused. In any case, you need to be talking to phk about this.
- Jordan From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: current install failure Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:12:21 -0500 > > > * Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011003 15:33] wrote: > > > > As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the > > > > device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be > > > > mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update > > > > libdisk so that it doesn't attempt to make the device nodes in this > > > > way. Fortunately, the person who wrote libdisk is also the same > > > > person who made devfs the default, so this ball is very clearly in his > > > > court. :-) > > > > > > Just reminding you all that phk's suggested way of finding this > > > information out is to test for the presense of the devfs sysctl as > > > done in vinum. > > > > > > If libdisk does it a different way, then vinum should be updated. > > >------^^^^^^^ > > * Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011003 15:51] wrote: > > sysinstall, by design, knows very little about devices. It uses > > libdisk(3) as the abstraction for dealing with all disks in > > particular. > > <fed ex commercial> > You just said the same thing that I did except you did this... > > *makes up/down hand waving motion* > </fed ex commercial> > > :-) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
