From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 13:14:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24700 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24693; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id EAA03044; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 04:13:31 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199809212013.EAA03044@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki), jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:23:36 +0200." <199809211223.OAA23471@sos.freebsd.dk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 04:13:31 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Soren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote: > > = > > Soren, you said you used DEVFS without SLICE on regular basis. Tell m= e > > 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 :) And most important of all, it doesn't have da1s1e, so having /home on /dev/da1s1e causes fsck to fail unless /etc/rc opens /dev/[r]da1s1 first = to cause the disklabel to be probed and the corresponding [a-h] names to = appear. Devfs is rather impaired without this and is the show-stopper = reason why it's not (and cannot) be on by default. The partition nodes only appear for the boot disk because there is a = behind-the-scenes open of the device for mount root. fsck requires some = messy modifications to make it devfs-aware to make it work without the = functionality (auto-probing) that SLICE provided. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message