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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: small, syntax changes for devfs
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>> - names for partitions aren't generated unless the slice containing the
>>   partitions or at least one partition on that slice is open.  I'm not
>>   sure if they should be generated; anyway, this isn't implemented.
>and since wd0s1 isn't there either, how can you trigger that ?
>I belive all sensible slices/partitions should appear in /devfs by default,
>so that you can just fsck them from fstab...

wd0s1 is there, and opening it would reveal wd0s1[a-h], but this isn't
much use.  Perhaps wd0s1 should be a directory containing [a-h].  I
prefer a flat namespace.

Bruce