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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:58:07 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Alexander Tatmaniants <tat@Spline.NET>
To:        Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809161146230.12912-100000@freebie.spline.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809151718230.270-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>

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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Alex wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>,
    freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken...
> 
> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > It's all irrelevent now as someone deleted all the SLICE stuff out of the
> > kernel tree. Apparently phk an sos are now doing all the work to make
> > devices dynamic. They will probably delete all the devfs code  as well
> > so that they have a clean slate to work on..
> > 
> > (I only discoverd it when all my slice files were deleted from my tree on
> > 'cvs update')
> > 
> > It seems that an abstracted disk layer is not considered important enough
> > to work on..
> 
> It seemed more to me like unpolished code has no place in 3.0-R was the
> mentality.  And, I'd have to agree there.  I'd much rather wait and see a
> decent devfs and slice code in 3.0.5-R than see broken code which can
> cause panics in 3.0-R.

No, it can't, it was desabled by default. I use it in productive
environment at all my machines, add it works fine for me. IMHO removing
slice code was bad idea anyway.

> 
> - alex
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