Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 20:27:20 +1596657 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504201827.UAA01354@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <9504191741.AA19086@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 19, 95 11:41:28 am
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> 2) Automatic generation/removal of devices on bus reset. For > instance, attach a device to the SCSI device chain, or > power on a tape on the chain that was not powered on at > boot time, and it can be made available. The existance > of a device file is no longer an ambiguous marker. Yuck! Powering up/down for SCSI devices on the fly is generally a sure way to hang the buses, screw the disks etc. It *should* work, but my experience shows that it has something like a 20% chance to bomb. The above remark does not mean your point about devfs is invalid, I'm just not thrilled by the example ;-) Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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