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Date:      Sat, 03 Feb 2001 09:24:17 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devfs not making vn devices 
Message-ID:  <11748.981188657@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:14:29 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102021808320.47776-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102021808320.47776-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com>, Doug Barton writes:

>	I've been using devfs for a long time without problems. I had
>device vn in my kernel conf since the pre-devfs days, and today I needed
>to use a vn device to build picobsd. Lo and behold, I don't have any vn
>devices of any sort in /dev. I tried 'vnconfig -c /dev/vn0' but it also
>complained that the device didn't exist.

Use md instead of vn, it has all the same (and more) functionality.

See mdconfig(8).

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