Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 02:42:14 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: semi-HEADS-UP (dumpon now wants raw disk device) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912030237480.3837-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <19991201201641.55771@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > You must not have a very current -current :-). /dev/wd0 is a character > > device (with the same major/minor and character as /dev/rwd0) in -current: > > > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 3, 0x00010002 Dec 1 04:34 rwd0 > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 3, 0x00010002 Dec 1 04:34 wd0 > > Just doing a 'make world' won't do this; indeed, make world doesn't > even install the new ./MAKEDEV. What steps do you use to keep your > device nodes up to date? I use cp to install MAKEDEV after merging it into my version. Since I read all the diffs when I merged it, I know what changed :). I haven't actually remade all my disk devices, since that would break testing of old kernels without changing userland. I made the above devices in /dev/z to get some ls output to put in the mail. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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