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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:19:31 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, "Alex G. Bulushev" <bag@sinbin.demos.su>
Cc:        sepotvin@videotron.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I see one major problem with DEVFS...
Message-ID:  <19980601211931.09973@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <3572FBD0.33590565@whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 12:06:56PM -0700
References:  <199806010816.MAA12889@sinbin.demos.su> <3572FBD0.33590565@whistle.com>

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On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 12:06:56PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> THis is the single best argument I've heard for allowing
> devfs type nodes on a normal fs. :-)
> 
> certainly DEVFS makes the case of providing devices to chroot
> environments a lot more 'heavyweight'
> 
> A number of things to note about this:
> 1/ There is a suggestion that  there be a mount option that simply
> mounts an EMPTY devfs, which would then be populatable using some
> form of mknod (which uses the name to create the device and not the
> major/minor)

Can't this easily be done by mounting a DEVFS, wiping it, mounting one
more, and ln'ing in the nodes?  No changes required to do that...

Eivind.

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