From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 8:26:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D4637B43E for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7SFQ4N11165; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:26:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: Matthew Jacob , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha devfs feedback In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:16:04 +1100." Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:26:04 +0200 Message-ID: <11163.967476364@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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