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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...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809151718230.270-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980915152641.1530D-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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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.

- alex

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