Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:51:16 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cleanout & rebuild of /dev on -current Message-ID: <20001019095116.B11070@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <20001019093927.A11070@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>; from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:39:27AM %2B0200 References: <20001018215052.A51062@FreeBSD.org> <20001019093927.A11070@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:39:27AM +0200, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > > Given that the above can be automated on a live > > system, is this something that can/should be added > > to make installworld/world? (or atleast generate > > a report of changed devices, or devices that can > > nolonger be created..) > > It already is, if you do it the recommended way, also running mergemaster(8) > during the process, that is. It also does a MAKEDEV in /var/tmp/root *and* > automatically checks for differences. OK it seems I was just making this up. After checking the code for mergemaster(8), it only checks MAKEDEV itself for changes. Well, this way you certainly will catch all *new* devs, but will not delete old ones. But my other suggestion still stands. Also devfs may be an option, but I have never used it because it is still marked as highly experimental and "doesn't handle disk slices well" to quote the NOTES file. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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