From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 19 0:51:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E8E37B4D7; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id JAA15028; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:51:52 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13mATs-0003GI-00; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:51:16 +0200 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:51:16 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: "John W. De Boskey" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cleanout & rebuild of /dev on -current Message-ID: <20001019095116.B11070@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: "John W. De Boskey" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <20001018215052.A51062@FreeBSD.org> <20001019093927.A11070@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20001019093927.A11070@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>; from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:39:27AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:39:27AM +0200, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > > Given that the above can be automated on a live > > system, is this something that can/should be added > > to make installworld/world? (or atleast generate > > a report of changed devices, or devices that can > > nolonger be created..) > > It already is, if you do it the recommended way, also running mergemaster(8) > during the process, that is. It also does a MAKEDEV in /var/tmp/root *and* > automatically checks for differences. OK it seems I was just making this up. After checking the code for mergemaster(8), it only checks MAKEDEV itself for changes. Well, this way you certainly will catch all *new* devs, but will not delete old ones. But my other suggestion still stands. Also devfs may be an option, but I have never used it because it is still marked as highly experimental and "doesn't handle disk slices well" to quote the NOTES file. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message