From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 16 19:57:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20917 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:57:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20901; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@coppe.ufrj.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01771; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:56:05 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199802170356.BAA01771@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: devfs persistence In-Reply-To: <199802162241.PAA00744@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Feb 16, 98 03:38:57 pm" To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:56:05 -0200 (EDT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, bde@zeta.org.au, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@yes.no X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Justin T. Gibbs) // And saying, "If you mount your DEVFS on a directory that just happens to // have a 'devinfo' file, you get magical DEVFS properties", is intuitive? Would it be a better implementation to the devinfo file as an argument to mount ? I have the following line in my fstab (just to test): devfs /devices devfs rw 0 0 If a file is needed to specify the backing store, why not specify it like this ? /etc/devinfo /devices devfs rw 0 0 It's better in the sense that the devinfo file is not required to be in the same filesystem as the mount point. (Note, this does not mean I already agree with DEVFS being used as suggested. I'm still in the process of understanding it 8^) ) BTW: Eivind Eklund has asked me why I'me reading mail that was intended to -commiters if I'm not a commiter. Before anybody else asks, here's the answer: Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG If somebody fix this, please move the thread to -hackers. I'm pretty curious about it. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message