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 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112025641.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111201640.307E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Jan 11, 1997 20:22:35 -0500 References: <Mutt.19970111115710.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au> <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111201640.307E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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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. ;-)
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