From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 11 18:22:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA24992 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA24987 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:22:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id DAA09187 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 03:22:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id CAA07495; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:56:41 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:56:41 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting devfs on /dev References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Jan 11, 1997 20:22:35 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > FWIW, When I boot on a kernel with DEVFS, but without DEVFS_ROOT, > then mount devfs, the all the disk entries show up correctly. Of course. IIRC, Bruce once wrote that the partitions and slices in DEVFS are only initialized after the first open() of that disk. Bummer. That not only prevents DEVFS_ROOT from working, it also defeats the idea to handle the dreaded DEVFS `persistancy' from a script run by the rc(8) shell. :( -- 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. ;-)