From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 12:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20062 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19973; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA26008; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:51:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:51:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= cc: peter@netplex.com.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? In-Reply-To: <199809211223.OAA23471@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote: > > > > Soren, you said you used DEVFS without SLICE on regular basis. Tell me > > then, please, what for, because I can't see what (significant) added > > functionality over standard /dev/* it offered... > > It doesn't give me anything but an emptier looking /dev with only those > devices in it that I actually have :) Mhmhm.. But it's unable to create slices/partition nodes on the fly, so you mean you use it only for non-disk devices, right? Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message