From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 8 18:12:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93DD37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:12:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144F543E88 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:12:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arlankfo@verizon.net) Received: from verizon.net ([138.88.151.200]) by out012.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.09 201-253-122-126-109-20020611) with ESMTP id <20021109021226.ORJQ1488.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net> for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:12:26 -0600 To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting rid of devfs From: "Andrew Lankford" Reply-To: "Andrew Lankford" Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:12:54 -0500 Message-Id: <20021109021226.ORJQ1488.out012.verizon.net@verizon.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >In message <20021108164651.6e839063.fearow@attbi.com>, Anti writes: >> >how are you supposed to get rid of devfs? > >You're not. Just out of curiosity, what's the main motivation for doing that? Does UFS2 not support device nodes? Or is it no longer possible to extricate DEVFS code from the legacy code at compile time? Would the average embedded BSD user to notice any difference in memory usage? I gather that the advantage of making GEOM standard will greatly reduce code redundancy in the long run, but it's nice to be able to config out other major OS components like INET6 and maybe even INET in some cases, even if support for a no-"INET" config may inevitably "wither on the vine" in some future release, just like matcd and (god willing) floppy disks. Incidently, the last time I removed 'option INET' in my config was 2.2.2 (the dark ages). Hope I'm not resurrecting a "bikeshed". -CURRENT DEVFS works great, and I look forward to using it in 5-STABLE. But a '/etc/MAKEDEV all' on a FFS partition still works as expected too. And why shouldn't it? Andrew Lankford To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message