From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 22:40:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC3837B401; Tue, 6 May 2003 22:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA8743F75; Tue, 6 May 2003 22:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h475emLr065005; Wed, 7 May 2003 07:40:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Doug Barton From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 2003 22:20:22 PDT." <20030506220503.W5620@znfgre.qbhto.arg> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 07:40:48 +0200 Message-ID: <65004.1052286048@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: Lucky Green cc: "'Geoffrey T. Falk'" cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Putting gbde to use: changes to fstab(5)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 05:40:53 -0000 In message <20030506220503.W5620@znfgre.qbhto.arg>, Doug Barton writes: >Yeah, that'd be bad. If anything, /etc/geom.d/*.cf would be better, but it >would be nice if we could find a more general solution. Poul-Henning, have >you taken a look at the new devfs.conf file that I just committed? Would >something like that be scalable with what you have in mind? I have only briefly looked at devfs.conf, and not gotten around to check if you just execute those changes at boot time, or if you also load them into devfs(8) as default rules ? I don't really have anything specific in mind, that's more or less the trouble from my point of view, if I knew what we would need I'd be the first to tell you guys, but at this time I simply don't think I know where we'll end... >> I'm sorry I cannot take an active lead in this, but my TODO list >> has recently eaten my pencil and the judge rule that it was a clear >> and justified act of self-defence. > >No problem... not only is your time most valuable actually programming the >stuff, but my experience is that people who write really good low level >software aren't always the best people to translate that into user >experience. :) I plead the fifth! :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.