From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 6 11:45:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19343 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:45:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bingsun2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingsun2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19314 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:45:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bf20761@binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (bf20761@localhost) by bingsun2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA25951 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:45:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:45:31 -0500 (EST) From: zhihuizhang X-Sender: bf20761@bingsun2 To: hackers Subject: Questions about DEVFS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After reading the file /miscfs/devfs/README and some postings related to DEVFS, I am still confused with it. The back plane is said to be a tree of back nodes. How many nodes are created in this back plane? How can we know the hierarchy of the tree in order to create it? How can the back plane serve as a blueprint of multiple front planes? I hope someone will give me a general idea about DEVFS so that I can go over the source code easily. Any help is appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message