From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 26 23:14:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB4637B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:14:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gandalf.online.bg (gandalf.online.bg [217.75.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D68043F93 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:14:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 4661 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 07:10:02 -0000 Received: from office.sbnd.net (HELO straylight.ringlet.net) (217.75.140.130) by gandalf.online.bg with SMTP; 27 Feb 2003 07:10:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 82419 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Feb 2003 07:12:47 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:12:47 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Julian Elischer Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. Message-ID: <20030227071247.GJ487@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Julian Elischer , Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@freebsd.org References: <28750.1046295228@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > We are now (almost) ready to ditch device major numbers if we want to. > >=20 > >=20 > > 5) Remove the d_maj field from struct cdevsw entirely and make > > dynamic allocation the default. > >=20 > > Comments welcome. >=20 > Sounds right to me.. > (I assume there are no NFS related gotchas) What happens to a FreeBSD NFS server, or rather, to its clients, if the server is rebooted and the client remounts the NFS share? Could some programs at the client side be confused by the suddenly changed device major numbers? G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If wishes were fishes, the antecedent of this conditional would be true. --Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Xbpv7Ri2jRYZRVMRApcBAJwKysX30K1UABHhu38kzL53h9O8LQCdHw6O VQHfj41OA4Fi44E5aTL2PJg= =vfHa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message