Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 21:36:10 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS/SLICE passes milestone Message-ID: <199711262036.VAA06175@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971126121645.3379A-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Nov 26, 97 12:19:37 pm"
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In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote:
> Unfortunatly the existing code is inherrently broken by design.
Now you tell us :(, that is the exact reason for our reservations
on what goes in and what does not nowadays....
> After discussing this with PHK we agreed that the two changes were
> intertwined.
Well, depends on viewpoint, but I'll buy that...
> DEVFS works fine without the slice changes, except that
> you can't do disk partitions because of the broken-ness.
> i.e it works fine for diskless systems.
>
> You can do devfs without SLICES but it won't help you too much because of
> this.
>
> I have been consulting others on this as I go..
I know :), I just wanted to get this straight, we don't want a new
"inherrently broken by design" subsystem again.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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