Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:48:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007271847360.59725-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <3980C360.BB897C3A@integratus.com>
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Which is also why I want to do this possibly *without* the current instantiation of devfs. On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Jack Rusher wrote: > Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > Kind of. From my understanding of the way devices/VFS holds together, the > > underlying devsw can't change while the machine is running, so your > > (SCSI/IDE/Fibrechannel) device drivers and whatever disklabel layer you > > use would have to keep the devsw mapping static. > > ...which strikes me as pretty lousy. New disks can come and go > (especially if they are attached to a fabric). In fact, in a more > general sense, a lot of things can be dynamically registered and > deregistered using modern bus architectures. > > -- > Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com > Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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