Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:55:08 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: jon@witchspace.com Cc: ecsd <ecsd@ecsd.com> Subject: Re: cannot create partition entries for /dev/ad3 Message-ID: <57278.1065628508@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:35:47 BST." <2208.192.168.0.1.1065623747.squirrel@webmail.witchspace.com>
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>> I read that too. That appears to be just about all the information about >> the new devfs that there is, >> short of reading the source code. You shouldn't need to do that. You can, more or less entirely forget about DEVFS unless you are a device driver writer. If you needed to run mknod(8) before you don't now, it will happen automatically. If it doesn't happen, it wouldn't have worked to run mknod(8) either. Poul-Henning PS: Eric, didn't you work at TFS at one time ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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