From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 13:02:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA02605 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:02:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA02566 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:02:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA07623; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:00:45 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA24242; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:33:48 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199701101925.LAA25150@ipro.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701101925.LAA25150@ipro.com>; from Ken Ingram on Jan 10, 1997 11:32:31 -0800 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)