Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:25:26 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) Message-ID: <11260.945282326@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 02:56:30 %2B0900." <3857D64E.ABE978FE@newsguy.com>
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In message <3857D64E.ABE978FE@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: >> >> Yea... been hearing that for 4 years... one of it's big short comings is >> that it needs a persistent backing store for this. Sounds like this C >> program could fullfill one of the missing parts of devfs :-) A "devd" program would solve 98% of what devfs could solve. It cannot solve the homebrew-a-vnode-for-the-root-fs problem. FreeBSD needs a "devd" program *anyway* because what good is dynamic devices if you can't do something intelligent with them when they appear (mount/ifconfig etc etc etc). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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