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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20010513141237.A63235@xor.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway writ=
es:
>=20
> >I agree with this..
> >
> >>   Pending any significant issues, DEVFS will be made mandatory in
> >>   -current on july 1st so that we can start reaping the full
> >>   benefits of having it.
> >
> >=3D2E.but as for this, have you fixed the bugs where you can't re-mount a
> >devfs to refresh it, or recreate a device node which was removed?
>=20
> I have some code that does this sitting in my tree.  Part of my
> trouble here is the lack of available mount options  - they come in
> one 32-pack bit-map and it's full :-(=20
>=20
> The simple "unwhiteout" implementation is not affected by that of
> course.

The ability to rm -W device nodes to recreate them would be fine by me.

Kris

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