From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 19:43:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12778 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:43:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12769 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:43:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02815; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809160248.TAA02815@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alex cc: Julian Elischer , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:19:34 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:48:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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