Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:15:14 -0500 From: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs not ready for prime time yet? Message-ID: <19981215161514.X26279@kublai.com> In-Reply-To: <199812122016.MAA00300@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 12:16:15PM -0800 References: <199812122016.MAA00300@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 12:16:15PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> It almost works. For some odd reason, wd0 gets really, really confused.
> When I try to boot using devfs for /dev, fsck fails instantly trying
> to fsck IDE drives on wd0. If I drop into /bin/sh, the first time I
> run disklabel on wd0 the disklabel only sees wd0c. The second time it
> sees wd0a,b,c,d,...g. The third time it gets an ioctl error. The
> fourth time it seens all the partitions.
One of the problems with DEVFS is that none of the slice or partition
nodes show up until the disk device is first opened. SLICE was supposed
to take care of this (and did, despite it's other failings). You cannot
mount disks or fsck out of DEVFS in the usual fashion because of this.
That makes it pretty useless to most people. :-/
--
Brian Cully <shmit@rcn.com>
Macintosh -- we might not get everything right, but at least we
knew the century was going to end.
-- Douglas Adams, on the Y2K problem.
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