Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:16:51 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, julian@ref.tfs.com, scrappy@ki.net Subject: Re: PATCH: small, syntax changes for devfs Message-ID: <199603220716.SAA24449@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> - names for partitions aren't generated unless the slice containing the >> partitions or at least one partition on that slice is open. I'm not >> sure if they should be generated; anyway, this isn't implemented. >and since wd0s1 isn't there either, how can you trigger that ? >I belive all sensible slices/partitions should appear in /devfs by default, >so that you can just fsck them from fstab... wd0s1 is there, and opening it would reveal wd0s1[a-h], but this isn't much use. Perhaps wd0s1 should be a directory containing [a-h]. I prefer a flat namespace. Bruce
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