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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: devd limitations / automounting removable storage 
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In message <20030918.065259.112623652.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:


>You'd want to know that devfs events have happened in this case.  GEOM
>likely doesn't need to get into the mix.  And you can likely do that
>with a kqueue on the /dev directory.
>
>GEOM lives in the dev_t name space (right?)

Generally speaking: yes.

All "providers" in GEOM end up in /dev, so in that sense it is true.

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