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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:51:43 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/vinum Makefile commands.c list.c v.c
Message-ID:  <19981229115143.X12346@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981229021500.49965@cicely.de>; from Bernd Walter on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:15:00AM %2B0100
References:  <199812281632.IAA06166@freefall.freebsd.org> <19981229021500.49965@cicely.de>

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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at  2:15:00 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 08:32:39AM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
>> peter       1998/12/28 08:32:39 PST
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sbin/vinum           Makefile commands.c list.c v.c
>>   Log:
>>   Tweaks as a result of having vinum statically buildable in a kernel.
>>
> The last I know is that the vinum module had to be loaded after / was mountet rw,
> because it creates nodes and directorys und /dev.
> Was there an exchange in this behavour?

No.  I don't really think this is going to work properly until we have
DEVFS.

> Are there any plans to implement devfs at this time?  If theres
> nobody working on devfs support and if there's no good reason to do
> later I would try to do it - devfs seems not to be to hard to
> implement with my current knowledge.

There are two big problems with DEVFS:

1.  There are two very different opinions out there about how to do it.
2.  The technical one is how to handle deletions of devices.

Greg
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