Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:57:59 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code Message-ID: <199803151858.KAA07972@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 20:09:30 PST." <199803150409.UAA09297@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > Actually, I've always wondered by MAKEDEV sits in /dev--of course,
> > there is now a considerable tradition for it, but doesn't it make
> > more sense to split it into a standard utility, "makedev", which
> > lives in /sbin, plus a standard-but-modifiable database which lives
> > in /etc called "devtab" and "devtab.local" or whatever?
>
> Makedev will (god willing) not be a standard part of the system in 3.0;
> device nodes will appear and disappear by magic.
>
> (I am, incidentally, not kidding.)
Kind of like boot -r under Solaris... Right? Or will these device
nodes appear when a new kernel is built, like DEC UNIX?
If this is done automatically without a SysAdmin being aware, e.g.
asking via an option, like Solaris, or installing a new kernel, like
DEC UNIX, won't this cause some confusion?
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