Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:51:21 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> To: bright@mu.org Cc: hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: current install failure Message-ID: <20011003135121O.jkh@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20011003154252.U59854@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011003214359C.hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org> <20011003133239Z.jkh@freebsd.org> <20011003154252.U59854@elvis.mu.org>
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sysinstall, by design, knows very little about devices. It uses libdisk(3) as the abstraction for dealing with all disks in particular. > * Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> [011003 15:33] wrote: > > As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the > > device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be > > mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update > > libdisk so that it doesn't attempt to make the device nodes in this > > way. Fortunately, the person who wrote libdisk is also the same > > person who made devfs the default, so this ball is very clearly in his > > court. :-) > > Just reminding you all that phk's suggested way of finding this > information out is to test for the presense of the devfs sysctl as > done in vinum. > > If libdisk does it a different way, then vinum should be updated. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," > start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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