From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 17:30:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29134 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29051; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25476; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:29:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd025334; Mon Sep 21 17:29:41 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA26776; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:29:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809220029.RAA26776@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:29:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@netplex.com.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Sep 21, 98 09:51:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote: > > > > > > Soren, you said you used DEVFS without SLICE on regular basis. Tell me > > > 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 :) > > Mhmhm.. But it's unable to create slices/partition nodes on the fly, so > you mean you use it only for non-disk devices, right? Actually, you can: for i in $(diskdevices) do dd if=$i count=1 of=/dev/null done /in the rc.boot/early in the main rc file, before mount is called/ to make the devices stick their heads up. This is much less satisfying than the slice code, of course, but it will work. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message