Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:26:04 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha devfs feedback Message-ID: <11163.967476364@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:16:04 %2B1100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008290152470.11468-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008290152470.11468-100000@besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Ev ans writes: >> Sure. They're not there. A reboot still just has da0[c], da1[c], and >> da2[c] show up. > >That's more than show up on i386's :-). After booting with -s, only >the whole disk devices and the root device show up. Devices for slices >and partitions slices only show up when they are opened or stat'ed. >This bug is normally mostly hidden by opening most partitions to mount >them. Well, this "bug" is built into the current diskslice/label code as you know (you wrote it :-) It doesn't have anything to do with DEVFS as such. My proposed solution for this can be found in the bio/buf paper I wrote. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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