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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 1996 01:43:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: devfs questions
Message-ID:  <199604062343.BAA12440@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604061657.CAA02813@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 7, 96 02:57:39 am

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> >Alas, the next would be fsck'ing, and so the big question is: how are
> >the slice and partition entries supposed to be created?
> 
> This doesn't work right yet.  Initially there are only whole-disk device
> names.  Opening these creates the slice device names.  Opening the

You mean, fsck (or mount) would have to open /dev/rsd0 before trying
to fsck/mount /dev/rsd0e?

> I've just fixed the floppy devfs names.  The unit numbering was wrong
> (fd1 was type 8), the links to fd.xxxx were bogus, and most of the
> fd.xxxx's weren't created.  There are now too many devices:

I don't really like the current way either.  The fd0.foo entries
should be symlinks to `generic' fd0a ... fd0z entries, created by
the rc mechanism instead of by devfs.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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