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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:51:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        =?ISO-8859-2?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DEVFS & SLICE?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809212150310.22189-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199809211223.OAA23471@sos.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote:

> In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote:
> > 
> > Soren, you said you used DEVFS without SLICE on regular basis. Tell me
> > then, please, what for, because I can't see what (significant) added
> > functionality over standard /dev/* it offered...
> 
> It doesn't give me anything but an emptier looking /dev with only those
> devices in it that I actually have :)

Mhmhm.. But it's unable to create slices/partition nodes on the fly, so
you mean you use it only for non-disk devices, right?

Andrzej Bialecki

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