From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 7 13:29:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA29458 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA29451 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA00508; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:23:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604072023.NAA00508@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: devfs questions To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:23:10 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199604070101.DAA15010@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 7, 96 03:01:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I still think that devfs should export the root directory and a dev > > directory and be mounted in the kernel. > > Why? And what's devfs' job wrt. the root dir? To export one so that root mount can be cone as a union mount and the devfs doesn't have to be mounted as a result of init (the mount of root would need to give priority to the devfs). > > I think it is a bad thing to chang init this way. > > What's the basical difference? (Despite, it's perhaps not much harder > either, but i'm curious about your reasons.) All the code can go into the kernel, and it doesn't have to be overly complicated. And for ports to new platforms, only a working ethernet driver is necesssary to get up initially. If the registration mechanisms for various slice management methods are provided in a kernel, it means a FreeBSD kernel could boot and run on a Linux box with no other changes to the Linux box. The same for any other i386 UNIX-like OS, for that matter, as long as the FS can be located in the local slicing/partitioning information and the FS there can be mounted. Think "FreeBSD now offering an upgrade to existing Linux systems". 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.