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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.

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