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Date:      Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:31:25 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days... 
Message-ID:  <60894.1033540285@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:27:20 %2B0200." <20021002062720.GX44476@starjuice.net> 

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In message <20021002062720.GX44476@starjuice.net>, Sheldon Hearn writes:
>On (2002/10/02 16:27), Bruce Evans wrote:
>
>> It is a devfs issue that devfs moves things into the kernel where they
>> harder to control and more fatal if they are got wrong.
>
>If it's just ownerships and permissions you're worried about, I think
>the issue could be made moot by some /etc support for devfs(1).
>
>In fact, as the loudest supporter of MAKEDEV, you might be the best
>person to drive its transcription into /etc/defaults/devfs.conf. :-)

And with devfs(8), you can enact your personal policy just the way
you like :-)

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