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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:53:40 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? 
Message-ID:  <16935.964598020@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:56:11 %2B0200." <20000726095611.B68912@ywing.creative.net.au> 

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In message <20000726095611.B68912@ywing.creative.net.au>, Adrian Chadd writes:

>ok. There should not be a reason why you can't simply register your FC
>devices as '/dev/fc/$label' or even '/dev/$label' rather than '/dev/da1a'.
>A "true" devfs would not pretend to impose a "%s%d", majorstring, minorunit
>type namespace in front of all devices, and so neither should you.
>If you have a generic FC layer which handles mapping physical devices to
>logical devices, I can't see a problem here.

Devfs will give each device a "canonical name" and as many aliases as
you like.  The aliases will show up as symlinks.

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