Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:23:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence Message-ID: <199802171123.DAA01490@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:56:05 -0200." <199802170356.BAA01771@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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> #define quoting(Justin T. Gibbs) > // And saying, "If you mount your DEVFS on a directory that just happens to > // have a 'devinfo' file, you get magical DEVFS properties", is intuitive? > > Would it be a better implementation to the devinfo file as an argument > to mount ? In the style of quota files? This was proposed a little while back; it might be desirable to borrow the concept to make it more approachable. There could be implementation benefits too. > It's better in the sense that the devinfo file is not required to > be in the same filesystem as the mount point. You raise a good point here, in that the filesystem the DEVFS is mounted on is not necessarily going to be writable. > If somebody fix this, please move the thread to -hackers. I'm > pretty curious about it. Julian suggested -current, which is fair enough. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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