From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 16 18:22:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA20879 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20874 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA04439; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:19:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610170119.SAA04439@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:19:44 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jehamby@lightside.com, jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <1134.845513938@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 16, 96 05:58:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.