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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>

:-)


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