From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 11 11:56:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6F637B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2BJuim14156; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:56:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:56:44 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob , Greg Lehey Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS? Message-ID: <20010311115643.H18351@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010311115147.L57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010311112923.A41738@bank-pedersen.dk> <20010311032701.G18351@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:02:43PM +0100 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Dag-Erling Smorgrav [010311 09:02] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs > > vinum does. > > Why not? make_dev_alias() is cheap and easy to use. Take a look at the /dev/vinum tree under devfs and non-devfs systems and you'll understand why I wanted to get rid of the symlinks. Basically, I found them to be distasteful and not worth keeping around. To completely emulate the rats' nest of symlinks I would have had to link to outside disks as well, I really didn't want to do that. Lastly make_dev_alias() is undocumented. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message