Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:33:48 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: kingram@ipro.com (Ken Ingram) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Message-ID: <Mutt.19970110213348.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701101925.LAA25150@ipro.com>; from Ken Ingram on Jan 10, 1997 11:32:31 -0800 References: <199701101925.LAA25150@ipro.com>
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As Ken Ingram wrote: > Is devfs something about 'device file system' or something thereabout? Yes, it's a device filesystem. Its goal is to replace the existing /dev tree with all its static entries. The idea behind it is that the static /dev vs. the dynamic nature of successfully probed devices in a running kernel are always a source of potential discrepancy. DEVFS intends to create all the entries in /dev dynamical, based on the drivers that successfully probed there devices. This saves you the manual mknod (or /dev/MAKEDEV) run. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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