From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 08:55:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A01116A4B3 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:55:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A6844001 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h98Ft82B057279; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:55:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: jon@witchspace.com From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:35:47 BST." <2208.192.168.0.1.1065623747.squirrel@webmail.witchspace.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:55:08 +0200 Message-ID: <57278.1065628508@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: ecsd Subject: Re: cannot create partition entries for /dev/ad3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:55:24 -0000 >> 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.