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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:58:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS (second part)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103111257150.29879-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103111253310.29879-100000@zeppo.feral.com>

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I think I'm assuming that DEVFS will become standard. I really see it working
very very well and solving lots of problems. I have yet to really find cases
where it really *can't* work (modulo broken drivers).


> 
> > Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
> > > Hmm. Sounds to me more like an argument for requiring devfs if you
> > > use vinum.
> > 
> > Not until vinum works equally well with devfs as without it.
> 
> Har har har har har............
> 
> Almost a Catch-22... "We have to do really wierd things so vinum will work
> equally well without devfs as with it... so we can, then,.... remove all the
> wierd things we did to make vinum work equally well without devfs as with
> it"...
> 
> I think what you really meant to say was "No, we won't require devfs".
> 
> 
> 
> 


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