Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:57:03 -0800 From: Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Devd event from GEOM? Message-ID: <20050124055703.GA40104@users.altadena.net>
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Geom doesn't feed node-creations to devd in 5.3. This would be VERY useful for letting ordinary non-programmer users access pen drives, among other things (floppies come to mind too...). (or mount e.g. a pen drive as part of an authentication system where no-one is yet logged in, so can't manually mount...) umass0 comes in to devd, but this isn't useful for use in "mount". One needs the disk device nodes. I suppose one *could* parse dmesg for the info (or maybe sysctl) but that smacks of a serious kluge. (not to mention that the slice table isn't represented in dmesg anyhow, and practically nothing is in sysctl...) Does this yet happen in any later version (RELENG_5 or HEAD)? If not, is there anyone planning or working on it? It *does* work in Solaris and IRIX, (I know - we aren't them...) I don't know about any Linux or other *BSD version either. Geom is modular enough that this shouldn't be difficult... -- Pete
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