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Date:      Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:28:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: devfs not making vn devices
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010202182821.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102021808320.47776-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com>

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On 03-Feb-01 Doug Barton wrote:
>       I've been using devfs for a long time without problems. I had
> device vn in my kernel conf since the pre-devfs days, and today I needed
> to use a vn device to build picobsd. Lo and behold, I don't have any vn
> devices of any sort in /dev. I tried 'vnconfig -c /dev/vn0' but it also
> complained that the device didn't exist.
> 
>       I know that the goal is for vn to be phased out (at least that's
> my impression) but what do we do in the meantime?
> 
> Doug

mdconfig(8) has all of the functionality of vnconfig now, along with all the
functionality of the old md(4) driver.

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