Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:47:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ouch... (DEVFS) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980428093808.21464A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <354513B5.3F54BC7E@whistle.com>
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Yet another minor problem: does DEVFS support vn(4) driver? I can't make
> > > it work.
>
> Ok I've looked at it quickly..
> here's how you do it..
> 1/ the 'auto' feature does NOT work
> so use a floppy definition to start with..
:-( This feature was really nice... especially for creating vnode
filesystems from scripts, with changing parameters...
> vnconfig /dev/rvn0 /tmp/imagefile
> disklabel -w -r /dev/rvn0 floppy3
> disklabel -r -e /dev/rvn0
> [edit disklabel to taste.. make 'c' the whole file but make another
> partition to mount. 'c' is special. it will not show up in /dev.]
> newfs /dev/vn0a # not rvn0a, this is a bug. I will fix this.
I.e. after I edit disklabel, the correct (vn0a) entry will show up in
/dev, right?
> I will look at these problems when I get a chance.
Thanks for help!
Andrzej Bialecki
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