From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 14 17:13:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218E337B8B2 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:13:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22067; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:13:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11441; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:12:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:12:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004150012.SAA11441@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Scheidt Cc: Peter Jeremy , Steve Ames , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with MAKEDEV. In-Reply-To: References: <00Apr15.092900est.115218@border.alcanet.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made > > >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well.. > > >_ALL_. *shrug* > > > > What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide > > SCSI controllers, each with 15 disks - that's da0..da119. I might > > have a big shell (or similar) server that needs a few thousand PTYs. > > I could have all sorts of other wierd hardware. "MAKEDEV all" has to > > draw the line somewhere. > > Sure. What's the point of having both std and all, though? How much does > it hurt to have a few extra device files kicking around? You can easily run out of inodes on the roof partition. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message