From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 14 16:26:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5AF237C081 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: (qmail 22483 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2000 23:26:44 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2000 23:26:44 -0000 Message-ID: <396FA1B4.F8CC37C6@integratus.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:26:44 -0700 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Warner Losh , Adrian Chadd , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > At least for the devfs in jail problems.. > > in particular a variant on a symbolic link which is interpretted > as a symlink into /dev this would allow many /devs to exist > without many mounted filesystems in each jail This sounds like Solaris using /devices to provide a tree view of the hardware (lucky them, they have open firmware to make this job easier) and /dev to provide the traditional UNIX interface through links to /devices. Is it safe to have the links transcend the jail? It seems like that would require careful contemplation. It does seem like a good idea to be able to support boot -r (reconfigure) and the fairly beautiful ddi_* routines that are available in Solaris. -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message