From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 25 13:53:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E233337B916 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA31014; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:53:19 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:52:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? In-Reply-To: <14271.964558062@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Ie: > > My /dev/ad0 could have the following "aliases": > > /dev/ad0 > "IBM SOMETHING Serial# 4958393453" (found in ATA pages) > "Scratch disk 1" (found in bsd disklabel) > "/mnt/scratch" (found in UFS "last mount point") > > and I could use any one of these in my /etc/fstab Yes. That's the ticket- although with that model you may stub your toe with a programmer's metonymy (mistaking the container for the thing contained). Were you thinking it could be that freeform? That is, not have any selectors to qualify as to how the name might be decoded? So you'd just look it up in a database? This raises the question as to whether this database is dynamic and who maintains it. This does fit more with a real devfs tho.... -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message