Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 16:22:50 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Alain Brauner <bsdinfo@freegate.gna.org>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tips and tricks Message-ID: <3575DACA.167EB0E7@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980604024611.224D-100000@broker>
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The DEVFS in 2.2.x is similar to that in 3.0 however there are a few points.. The interface between the current disk slicing code and DEVFS is rather strained. For this reason, devfs has trouble in 2.2 being used at boot time as /dev. This can be fixed, but the changes going into -current to do so are to far-reaching to be thinkable in -stable. These are in -current under the option SLICE. having said that, devfs could be used as /dev on a system using a mfs root without too much difficulty. the problem would be that you would have ot touch each raw drive before all the subslices turned up. I have hear of people using it under -stable with NFS mounted systems. Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > And DEVFS is purely 3.0-current thing - I doubt it will ever be ported to > > 2.2.x line... I'm afraid that's bad news for you, Dinesh :-( but it would > > require massive changes in kernel... > > well, there's an "options DEVFS" and "options DEVFS_ROOT" in 2.2.6's > LINT. also a devfs(5) man page which says > > "HISTORY > The devfs filesystem first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. The devfs manual > page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2." > > Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." > dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) > +=======================----oOO--(_)--OOo----=========================+ > |for a in past present future; do | > | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | > | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b."| > |done; done | > +=====================================================================+ > http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0x230096E9 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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