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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:07:47 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, core@FreeBSD.ORG, junichi@jp.freebsd.org, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 
Message-ID:  <3524.887411267@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:44:17 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980213144121.23295A-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980213144121.23295A-100000@current1.whistle.com>, Jul
ian Elischer writes:
>I know I sound like I'm bitching, but htis whole question has been
>addressed (and largely thrown away) with
>the devfs/slice code..
>so far everyone who has run it has ahd no problems
>(including mike smith on varying hardware and simon shapiro on HUGE raid
>arrays. and me on almost everything in between The whole mouting root
>issue is addressed in a new file 1386/i386/mountroot.c
>
>the reluctance of core people to try out devfs is the only reason for
>it's non existance in the current tree as far as I can see.

I don't think you can call me reluctant on this :-(

The trouble is that somebody once told Jordan that if it didn't
have "persistence" it was a no-go, and despite the lack of 
intelligence behind this position, -core seems bound by it.

I belive that persistence in DEVFS is a BAD thing, but I'm appearantly
pretty alone on -core with this view...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"

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