From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 10:56:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53831553B for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21447; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:57:59 -0800 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:57:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Rodney W. Grimes" , Brian Somers , Andrzej Bialecki , Bill Fumerola , "Louis A. Mamakos" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) In-Reply-To: <11260.945282326@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3857D64E.ABE978FE@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > >"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > >> > >> Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is > >> that it needs a persistent backing store for this. Sounds like this C > >> program could fullfill one of the missing parts of devfs :-) > > A "devd" program would solve 98% of what devfs could solve. It cannot > solve the homebrew-a-vnode-for-the-root-fs problem. FreeBSD needs a > "devd" program *anyway* because what good is dynamic devices if you > can't do something intelligent with them when they appear (mount/ifconfig > etc etc etc). I mostly agree with you. I tend to also not worry terribly much about root-fs type issues, except that I keep being told by *my* customers that this is what they want, particularly for large SANs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message