Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:43:02 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DEVFS Message-ID: <3AFAD326.CCCF04FB@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <XFMail.010510103013.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > On 10-May-01 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > 2) Is it valid that multiple DEVFS mounts over /dev are allowed? > > Why wouldn't it be? (Granted, it is a bit _weird_). You can do the same with > other fs's: ...and happily shoot yourself in the foot this way. :) <personal_experience effect=fade out> I had pretty weird experiences into mounting multiple root directories (!). I have a crappy 486 which has an equally crappy IDE controller which can't grok my 3.2G HD. The loader couldn't boot the kernel from the drive. I had to keep another very crappy 250M HD with a duplicate of the / filesystem and a very special kernel that mounted its root from the other drive, since the kernel could recognize the drive correctly. Without DMA, of course. :) But it works. My point here is that I had a lot of fun in totally scrapping my system by doing a spurious mount /. No reboot(1) or halt(1) available... ;) C-A-Del! </personal_experience effect=fade in> Anyways... Another OT question.. Is any MFC planned for devfs? I'm getting jealous of -current (running -stable). ;) Thanks, A. -- La sémantique est la gravité de l'abstraction. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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