Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:57:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912151056420.46825-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <11260.945282326@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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
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