Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:03:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ccd ccd.c src/sys/dev/vn vn.c src/sys/sys conf.h src/sys/i386/isa fd.c mcd.c scd.c wcd.c wd.c wt.c s Message-ID: <199607262003.PAA18767@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <3119.838409842@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jul 26, 96 09:37:22 pm
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> As much as I pride myself with never agreeing with Garrett, I'm having a > hard time finding a reason not to in this particular case. :-) > > There are a couple of fine points still not resolved. > There is >still< no way to generally specify a policy: > "Make all disks foo.bar mode 0640" > and such. This is a good point. There are some of us who use things like amanda for backups, and currently I rely on blind chance and the amanda report to remind me when I have bad permissions on a disk. My personal opinion, however, is that you can make this sort of a thing into a real problem and go to great lengths to "solve" it at ridiculous cost in complexity. Let's say, for example, that you were to create a "sd.defaults" file that specifies the default permissions for any newly created sd device. Well that's fine for the general case, but now somebody wants a special case for sd5, which holds a raw-partition database. It starts to get icky. The cure is worse than the disease, IMVHO. Unless somebody has a functionally better cure... I probably am not qualified to be a part of this architectural discussion anyways so I'll butt out now :-) I'm just speaking as someone who has gotten very tired of ./MAKEDEV sd13 sd13s1 sd13s1e sd14 sd14s1 sd14s1e > The major/minor of the underlying nodes are of course of no significance, > but wouldn't it be nice to get rid of all that blasted code entirely ? > > Why would we even care about the type of node apart from "Directory" or > "Not Directory" ? Ie, we could mount devfs on a FS that doesn't support > c/b devs at all (msdos, hfs ...) I wouldn't care :-) I think that would be a superb feature. ... JG
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