Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 06:44:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: julian@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504201144.GAA17992@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199504200741.RAA06984@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 20, 95 05:41:13 pm
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> > sd0 is the first scsi disk > > c0t0l0 is the disk at scsi bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > This would defeat one advantage of devfs - reduction of clutter in /dev. Why? Only the one you're using would be symlinked into dev. If you're running an unattended machine you don't want disks drifting to new locations when one goes down. > Why decides how h/w/ devices are mapped to ttys? So if your COM2 board goes out you don't find your unattended SLIP connection trying to talk to your Postscript laser printer and you've got a non-callbacked getty suddenly talking to your V.34 modem. In an unattended machine the BSD "device drift" problem is a real concern.
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