From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 18: 9:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jumping-spider.aracnet.com (jumping-spider.aracnet.com [205.159.88.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0747115208 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell2.aracnet.com (IDENT:1728@shell2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.20]) by jumping-spider.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12050; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:09:31 -0700 Received: from localhost by shell2.aracnet.com (8.8.7) id SAA20640; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:09:34 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: shell2.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:09:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie To: Julian Elischer Cc: John-Mark Gurney , "Matthew N. Dodd" , Chuck Robey , Wayne Cuddy , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: what is devfs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > While I sharply disagree, with your assertion, I also point out that if > you make such a all-singing-all-dancing devfsd, then you might as well get > rid of devfs entirely, and just have devfsd make the devices using normal > mknod commands. > Since I did not follow the original discussion, maybe this idea has been discussed and discarded, but what about a "translucent" like deal. Basically yu would mount the devfs on top of an existing directrory or filesystem. The underlying contents would "show through" by some set of rules. One rule would be that if a device node existed in the devfs and the real fs, and the device node in the real fs was for the "fake/null whatever you want to call it device", the resulting device node would have the major/minor fron the devfs and the owner/group/permissions from the real fs underneath. Any change to the node would affect the real fs underneath. I could probably expand on this futher if anybody is interested. Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message