From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 15 13:15:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26029 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp4.erols.com (smtp4.erols.com [207.172.3.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26020 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:15:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.noc.erols.net) Received: from natasya.noc.erols.net (natasya.noc.erols.net [207.172.25.236]) by smtp4.erols.com (8.8.8/smtp-v1) with ESMTP id QAA10181; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:15:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.noc.erols.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA14543; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:15:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981215161514.X26279@kublai.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:15:14 -0500 From: Brian Cully To: Matthew Dillon , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs not ready for prime time yet? Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199812122016.MAA00300@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199812122016.MAA00300@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 12:16:15PM -0800 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 12:16:15PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > It almost works. For some odd reason, wd0 gets really, really confused. > When I try to boot using devfs for /dev, fsck fails instantly trying > to fsck IDE drives on wd0. If I drop into /bin/sh, the first time I > run disklabel on wd0 the disklabel only sees wd0c. The second time it > sees wd0a,b,c,d,...g. The third time it gets an ioctl error. The > fourth time it seens all the partitions. One of the problems with DEVFS is that none of the slice or partition nodes show up until the disk device is first opened. SLICE was supposed to take care of this (and did, despite it's other failings). You cannot mount disks or fsck out of DEVFS in the usual fashion because of this. That makes it pretty useless to most people. :-/ -- Brian Cully Macintosh -- we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams, on the Y2K problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message