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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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> > 1) More pounding on devfs (is it planned as a standard feature installed
> > by sysinstall, or more of an optional feature installed by hand?) 
> 
> The latter. AFAIK, Julian still hasn't solved the persistance problem
> (though we discussed a number of different ways it could be done
> fairly trivially and I don't know what's holding him up) and people running
> with it as their /dev still show an unfortunate tendency to crash a lot,
> so no.

I thought it was supposed to generate devices dynamically based on
hardware presence, not persistently based on user fiat.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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