From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 6 16:21:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA25265 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:21:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA25258 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA22793 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 02:21:04 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA26663 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 02:21:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id BAA12440 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 01:43:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604062343.BAA12440@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: devfs questions To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 01:43:03 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604061657.CAA02813@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 7, 96 02:57:39 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >Alas, the next would be fsck'ing, and so the big question is: how are > >the slice and partition entries supposed to be created? > > This doesn't work right yet. Initially there are only whole-disk device > names. Opening these creates the slice device names. Opening the You mean, fsck (or mount) would have to open /dev/rsd0 before trying to fsck/mount /dev/rsd0e? > I've just fixed the floppy devfs names. The unit numbering was wrong > (fd1 was type 8), the links to fd.xxxx were bogus, and most of the > fd.xxxx's weren't created. There are now too many devices: I don't really like the current way either. The fd0.foo entries should be symlinks to `generic' fd0a ... fd0z entries, created by the rc mechanism instead of by devfs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)