Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:55:39 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org> To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5/6/7 kernel emulator for NetBSD 2.x Message-ID: <F1E1A773-FE03-4E20-906D-601FC522D750@shagadelic.org> In-Reply-To: <20051026172252.GA23243@netbsd.org> References: <200510242235.48403.hselasky@c2i.net> <20051026172252.GA23243@netbsd.org>
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On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Bill Studenmund wrote: > In the past, we (NetBSD folks) have talked about a devfs. One issue > that > has come up (I'll be honest, I've raised it a lot) is a desire to > retain > permission changes across boots, and to tie devices (when possible) > to a > device-specific attribute rather than a probe order. The permission thing is solvable using scripts that can fix up the perms after mount. The "nodes named after attributes" thing is interesting... and largely something I'm concerned about with wedges, although in that case, it's pretty easy to handle from within wedges itself. > Does FreeBSD's devfs support locators and persistent information? Are > there plans to support something like that, if not? FreeBSD's devfs does not, to my knowledge, include the things that you have mentioned above. FWIW, I think a devfs based on our new tmpfs would be better for NetBSD. -- thorpej
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