Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 19:27:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c s Message-ID: <199607251727.TAA22036@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3577.838236253@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 24, 96 12:24:13 pm"
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(Moved to -current.) As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Also, the persistence people don't mind if devfs is *optional*, then > it can throw your /dev files away every 5 minutes just for fun if it > likes - they don't have to use it. What sense does it make using /dev entries to unconfigured drivers (that's about all persistance would give you, isn't it :)? Of course, this assumes a debugged and functional devfs, so the /dev tree always reflects the current state. This is certainly some way to go from now, so don't call for something like persistance just because you don't like its current bugs. ;-) I think the union file system might be a good one, so you can stuff like /dev/tape, /dev/root :) and other pseudo-device names into it. Alternatively, symlinks inside devfs might do it, but they require some more effort to save the current state. Wasn't Julian promising that he's got symlinks almost working? ;) We need them badly for /dev/log. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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