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From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
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To: "Vladimir B.  Grebenschikov" <vova@sw.ru>
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Subject: Re: About DEVFS (was: Re: About GEOM...)
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On 5 Jul 2002, Vladimir B.  Grebenschikov wrote:

> May be same mechanism as hints, like:
> hint.sio.0.mode=0622

As long as we are throwing out ideas:  Aside from the fact that
it's broken and at the moment wouldn't exactly DTRT, I always
figured a type of mount_unionfs() with the older filesystem /dev as
the upper layer and devfs as the lower layer would be the way to
go.

-Paul.


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