From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 16 01:59:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA05489 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 01:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.spline.net (freebie.spline.net [194.44.182.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05479 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 01:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tat@Spline.NET) Received: from localhost (tat@localhost) by freebie.spline.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA23629; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:58:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from tat@freebie.spline.net) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:58:07 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander Tatmaniants To: Alex cc: Julian Elischer , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Alex wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:34 -0700 (PDT) > From: Alex > To: Julian Elischer > Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , 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 > > | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | > | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | > | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Best regards, Alexander Tatmaniants powered by FreeBSD nic-hdl: AT460-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message