Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:19:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jehamby@lightside.com, jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question Message-ID: <199610170119.SAA04439@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1134.845513938@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 16, 96 05:58:58 pm
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> > I thought it was supposed to generate devices dynamically based on > > hardware presence, not persistently based on user fiat. > > It's supposed to do BOTH. As the many people who beat me up > at USENIX over it said (*me*, and I'm not even the author!): > > "Fine, make it the default if you like, just make it *act* the same as > it always has then! POLA dictates that if I decide to make a symlink > or explicitly remove a file, those changes should stay there just as > they always did. If I don't actually have to know about it, then I > don't care whether I'm running devfs or the old /dev. If I do, and > have to alter my administrative behavior, then I care very much." > > I feel they had a perfectly valid point. Let them use union mounts... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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