From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 11 10:50:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04293 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04050 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:49:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA29385; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 19:49:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199809111749.TAA29385@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: DEVFS questions. In-Reply-To: from Alfred Perlstein at "Sep 11, 98 11:42:51 am" To: bright@hotjobs.com (Alfred Perlstein) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 19:49:15 +0200 (CEST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Alfred Perlstein who wrote: > > is there a way to perhaps mount_union over devfs to keep symlinks and > such? > > also, is there a way to preserve permission changes between reboots? maybe > a script that would do it based on a file... I do all this is /etc/rc.devfs which should be called from rc. I dont use SLICE its too green yet for my liking. > disklabel is also b0rked, will not write out to the disk. You just have to always use the -w option IIRC. > (not being sarcastic) i know DEVFS is quite new, but is it expected to be > used? or is it something akin to kernfs? Well, I usr DEVFS on all my machines, make it alot easier when fiddeling with device drivers, ie the devices come and go by themselves, no need to fiddle with MAKEDEV, and for that pupose it works very well. The SLICE code OTOH has been in the way too many times to be usefull for me at least. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message