Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:18:56 -0700 From: Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <3980C360.BB897C3A@integratus.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007251523570.16927-100000@semuta.feral.com> <397F5BD6.5104F1E4@integratus.com> <20000727094015.B71137@ywing.creative.net.au>
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Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Kind of. From my understanding of the way devices/VFS holds together, the > underlying devsw can't change while the machine is running, so your > (SCSI/IDE/Fibrechannel) device drivers and whatever disklabel layer you > use would have to keep the devsw mapping static. ...which strikes me as pretty lousy. New disks can come and go (especially if they are attached to a fabric). In fact, in a more general sense, a lot of things can be dynamically registered and deregistered using modern bus architectures. -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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