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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