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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS (second part)
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On 11 Mar 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
> > > Since you guys are in docco mode, you might as well document how one
> > > detects a devfs system in a running system.
> > Why should you care?
> 
> Because if the system doesn't have devfs, the userland vinum code
> needs to create the device nodes "manually".

Hmm. Sounds to me more like an argument for requiring devfs if you use vinum.



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