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Subject: Re: Bug in NFS
To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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> 
> 
> Is symbolic link support working in devfs?
> 
> I need to do little things like ln -s /dev/cuaa1 /dev/gps0
> for xntpd.
> 
> It was my understanding that no further development is going into devfs and
> that it's not ready for prime-time without symlinks and permission changes.
> Please tell me I'm wrong?
 you are wrong..

 the following items need to be done in DEVSF

 1/ there is a problem in vnode allocation that canresult in crashes.
 2/ symlink support needs to be added.. it's kinda trivial,
				but needs to be done
 3/ I think I want to add support for named pipes, as Iconsider them to be
		"pseudo devices" and they are often made in /dev.
		also not rocket science. also takes time... (what's that?)
> 
> Paul
> 
>   From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
>   Subject: Re: Bug in NFS 
>   In message <199606180740.RAA14812@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>   >>  Bruce, I am of course using the same OS on each machine. Actually I am
>   >>  using the wonderfull FreeBSD netboot system to build a diskless client
>   >>  system. Since I have no local UFS filesystems its really hard to get a
>   >>  working /dev directory. The machine still have a hard drive and I would
>   >>  like to put some swap space on it. Hope this makes things clearer.
>   >
>   >Use only devices which have numbers (on the server) < 64K (e.g., wd0b)
>   >and don't manage devices from the client.
>   
>   Or use devfs ?
>   
>   --
>   Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
>   http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
>   whois: [PHK]                | phk@ref.tfs.com       TRW Financial Systems, In
> >>c.
>   Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
>