Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:12:21 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: current install failure Message-ID: <20011003161221.W59854@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011003135121O.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@freebsd.org on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:51:21PM -0700 References: <20011003214359C.hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org> <20011003133239Z.jkh@freebsd.org> <20011003154252.U59854@elvis.mu.org> <20011003135121O.jkh@freebsd.org>
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> > * 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. >------^^^^^^^ * Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> [011003 15:51] wrote: > sysinstall, by design, knows very little about devices. It uses > libdisk(3) as the abstraction for dealing with all disks in > particular. <fed ex commercial> You just said the same thing that I did except you did this... *makes up/down hand waving motion* </fed ex commercial> :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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