Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 03:17:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, abial@nask.pl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? Message-ID: <199809230317.UAA18197@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809220810.SAA05183@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 22, 98 06:10:27 pm
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> Now I remember why it is not such a good idea :-). Removable disks may > not be there, and some disk drivers spew printfs when they are not there. > This was especially annoying for floppy disks under SLICE. Keeping the > list in userland allows better control. Not only better control, but also the ability to become desynchronized from the current kernel, just like libkvm. A highly desirable feature? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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