From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 5:31: 2 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 05:30:59 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89BA37B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 05:30:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 14D53B-0002VG-00; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:30:57 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f01D42C26411 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 14:04:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: nrsa0 v nsa0 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 13:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <92pv81$p39$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <92okpu$253a$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: daemon@mips.inka.de Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Henderson wrote: > > None. MAKEDEV creates them as hardlinks. > > Yes I saw that. That doesn't mean they aren't treated differently though, Yes, it does. Whether you reference /dev/nsa0 or /home/darren/tweedy_bird makes no difference as long as both are character device nodes with major=14, minor=1. Device names are not magic. > sa0=nsa0=esa0=nrsa0 No. sa0, nsa0, and esa0 are distinct devices, with distinct functionality. See sa(4). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message