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Subject: Re: About DEVFS (was: Re: About GEOM...)
From: "Vladimir B. " Grebenschikov <vova@sw.ru>
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=F7 Fri, 05.07.2002, =D7 06:39, Terry Lambert =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC:

> > Loader?
> > ie on shutdown write a list of permissions etc into a file which the
> > loader can slurp up next boot and shove into the kernel and be parsed.
>=20
> This really doesn't work very well.  You end up with two sets of
> data.  Having done something like this in practice, and had to live
> with the aftermath, I don't recommend it (at all).

May be same mechanism as hints, like:
hint.sio.0.mode=3D0622

why not ? Symantic very similar (there are some kernel-hardcoded values
and some loader-supplied)

> > > But overall, it seems to be a move forward. =20

agree.

> -- Terry
=20
--=20
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova@sw.ru, SWsoft, Inc.

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