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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 1998 01:50:40 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        core@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devfs persistance
Message-ID:  <19980214015040.46647@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199802140028.QAA05427@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 04:28:02PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980213151948.23295G-100000@current1.whistle.com> <199802140028.QAA05427@dingo.cdrom.com>

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[I restricted follow-ups to this to committers@FreeBSD.ORG; if
somebody in core _don't_ read committers, then yell to be sure people
include core in the subsequent replies]

On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 04:28:02PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
[... on storage of persistence information for DEVFS ...]
> IMHO, these should be stored in files under the mountpoint.  The devfs 
> code would have to look this file up during the mount, and keep it open.

How do you access this, if DEVFS is the default and it isn't possible
to run properly without it?

It is easy enough on getting the system up (root is mounted
automagically), but it isn't so obvious once the system is up.

Union-like semantics in DEVFS?  Then I believe there will be some
stacking issues we have to resolve first...

Other than that, this proposal solve all the potential problems I've
seen with DEVFS - sounds good to me.

Eivind.

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