Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:11:31 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: "Michael V. Harding" <mvh@netcom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314115229.220D-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314141226.27517H-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To the best of my knowledge (if I'm wrong, will someone please correct me), the entries are not deleted, they just become invalid, ie, they *act* like they point to /dev/null or somewhere in outerspace. I have been bitten by this in the past and have been quickly educated in the use of the fixit floppy/CDROM, which is actually a really cool tool to have! The pair have saved my butt a few times. It seems kinda odd when I explicitly give "/dev/MAKEDEV sd0s2a" (and the rest of my file systems individually) that it does what it needs to do to allow me to use that slice successfully, but "/dev/MAKEDEV all" makes the same slice no longer function. I believe this has been corrected in -current, but I probably have my facts wrong. I think all of us a one point in time have been a member of the head-scratching club. That's part of the fun of using FreeBSD. I just have a bad habit of learning at the worst possible time, like blowing up my system without a backup and all of my code for the quarter being on the unaccessible hard drive the week before finals. :-) - -burton- - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Michael V. Harding wrote: > > > I and everyone I know has been bitten by ./MAKEDEV deleting existing > > slices. This can make the system fail in a way that can take up to a > > day of headscratching to fix. And you can't even read the man pages. > > > > Could ./MAKEDEV make all slices by default, instead? > > Or, maybe MAKEDEV should MAKE DEVICES and not DELETE DEVICES. :) Anyone > can rm a device node. But creating them requires a priori knowledge of > device numbers, etc. > > Robert N Watson > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNQrkent2O8KJtMdBAQFd2QQAgW85vNGcylN6sSolTu+frQE4bAI0Q/5u b7L8WIMKLtjeUFNdZ275NCz6sK7ekWYl95xGd1ReFIhhlw+PEdcwEN3pM1Z/xb6v tk9D+SzM44NfK+kPdmC8aWf/5o5bXKZjVkFr7iUtz3oY3XbUuI7/cMggp3wHxsZX I3CejO3jRg4= =3o6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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