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Date:      Sat, 03 Nov 2001 08:14:14 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_disk.c 
Message-ID:  <49057.1004771654@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Nov 2001 11:21:05 %2B1030." <20011103112105.K41666@monorchid.lemis.com> 

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In message <20011103112105.K41666@monorchid.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>On Friday,  2 November 2001 at  1:16:25 -0800, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> phk         2001/11/02 01:16:25 PST
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/kern             subr_disk.c
>>   Log:
>>   Turn the symlinks around, instead of ad0s1 -> ad0s1c, make it ad0s1c -> ad0s1.
>
>Why are these symlinks and not normal links?

Devfs doesn't support normal links since they don't make sense and
complicated the vnode handling.

For devices there is no semantic difference between a hard and a soft link.

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