From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 14 11:14:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20794 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:14:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20758 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from trojanhorse.pr.watson.org (trojanhorse.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.10]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA05368; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:13:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:13:11 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: "Michael V. Harding" cc: bsampley@best.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code In-Reply-To: <199803141904.LAA26384@netcom1.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Michael V. Harding wrote: > I and everyone I know has been bitten by ./MAKEDEV deleting existing > slices. This can make the system fail in a way that can take up to a > day of headscratching to fix. And you can't even read the man pages. > > Could ./MAKEDEV make all slices by default, instead? Or, maybe MAKEDEV should MAKE DEVICES and not DELETE DEVICES. :) Anyone can rm a device node. But creating them requires a priori knowledge of device numbers, etc. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message