From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 17 03:24:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01691 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:24:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01678 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA01490; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:23:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802171123.DAA01490@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:56:05 -0200." <199802170356.BAA01771@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:23:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > #define quoting(Justin T. Gibbs) > // And saying, "If you mount your DEVFS on a directory that just happens to > // have a 'devinfo' file, you get magical DEVFS properties", is intuitive? > > Would it be a better implementation to the devinfo file as an argument > to mount ? In the style of quota files? This was proposed a little while back; it might be desirable to borrow the concept to make it more approachable. There could be implementation benefits too. > It's better in the sense that the devinfo file is not required to > be in the same filesystem as the mount point. You raise a good point here, in that the filesystem the DEVFS is mounted on is not necessarily going to be writable. > If somebody fix this, please move the thread to -hackers. I'm > pretty curious about it. Julian suggested -current, which is fair enough. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message