From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 22 20:18:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11490 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11464; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05355; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:17:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd005340; Tue Sep 22 20:17:32 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA18197; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:17:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809230317.UAA18197@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 03:17:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, abial@nask.pl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au In-Reply-To: <199809220810.SAA05183@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 22, 98 06:10:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Now I remember why it is not such a good idea :-). Removable disks may > not be there, and some disk drivers spew printfs when they are not there. > This was especially annoying for floppy disks under SLICE. Keeping the > list in userland allows better control. Not only better control, but also the ability to become desynchronized from the current kernel, just like libkvm. A highly desirable feature? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message