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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
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Subject: Re: wondering about DEVFS & MFS?
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you can't use an MFS root and DEVFS together due to the fact that MFS
synthesizes a device node which needless to say, devfs doesn't know
anything about.

If you've got an ffs root and just put devfs over the top of your
existing /dev/you'll be ok  but with and MFS ROOT you're screwed..
I still have devfs fixes to put in but am busy on other things.

It works in the situation I mentionned.

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> mfs is working fine for me as my /tmp, i used to be a big fan of DEVFS,
> how is it coming along?  usable again?  any caveats?
> 
> i know LINT says DEVFS+MFS is a no-no, is this still true?
in some particular cases ... yes.

> 
> thanks,
> Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
> -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
> -- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current
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