From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jun 3 00:26:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15039 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15001 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA14630; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:29:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:29:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Dinesh Nair cc: Alain Brauner , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tips and tricks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Thanks for useful comments. I planned to add some of these, and others are > > new to me. Thanks. > > and i definitely second that ! must play around with devfs a little... Heh... That's the part I did... However, this stuff is still made of glass, and any uncareful treatment breaks it to pieces. As it is now, the DEVFS panics when mounting an msdos floppy, so I'd say let's wait with it a while. Once it's relatively stable, it will be a big win - big savings on number of required inodes, no need to manually create the right set of device nodes etc... And DEVFS is purely 3.0-current thing - I doubt it will ever be ported to 2.2.x line... I'm afraid that's bad news for you, Dinesh :-( but it would require massive changes in kernel... Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message