Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:48:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken... Message-ID: <199809160248.TAA02815@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:34 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809151718230.270-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > It's all irrelevent now as someone deleted all the SLICE stuff out of the > > kernel tree. Apparently phk an sos are now doing all the work to make > > devices dynamic. They will probably delete all the devfs code as well > > so that they have a clean slate to work on.. > > > > (I only discoverd it when all my slice files were deleted from my tree on > > 'cvs update') > > > > It seems that an abstracted disk layer is not considered important enough > > to work on.. > > It seemed more to me like unpolished code has no place in 3.0-R was the > mentality. And, I'd have to agree there. I'd much rather wait and see a > decent devfs and slice code in 3.0.5-R than see broken code which can > cause panics in 3.0-R. I'd be more confident in this rosy future if our clock code wasn't summarily executing processes at the moment. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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