From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 3 12: 5:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 12:05:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E42637B400; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:05:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eB3K57m68219; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:05:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:05:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200012032005.eB3K57m68219@earth.backplane.com> To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: "David O'Brien" , Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel References: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> <20001121000936.C27827@dragon.nuxi.com> <200012021921.eB2JLmd64092@earth.backplane.com> <3A29848D.9AA7449B@glue.umd.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Matt Dillon wrote: :> Eventually we won't need device nubers at all, but for now we are somewhat > stuck. : :Can you elaborate on that for the curious? If I remember correctly, the work Poul is doing with the new dev_t infrastructure and the work Julian (and others?) are doing with devfs will eventually lead to us being able to have a dynamic /dev, where device numbers are assigned on the fly. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message