Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:22:48 +0200 From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] GEOM probing/tasting firewall Message-ID: <CAKoxK%2B6Jwc-4VaiDmBqd_=-1Ur5FbFqNVWSU8okyfA3pZJ3Yfg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130802190431.GH5771@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <447183917.20130731130956@serebryakov.spb.ru> <51F91FAC.60905@freebsd.org> <20130802190431.GH5771@garage.freebsd.pl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > Another idea is to implement lazy device creation in /dev/ - when > provider is created with this don't-taste flag its corresponding /dev/ > entry is not created, because the DEV GEOM class didn't taste it. > But DEV class could respond to devfs lookups by trying to find provider > by name (there is function for that already) and when found, create > /dev/ entry for it. This would make providers that don't like to be > tasted still available through /dev/. > Sounds rationale to me and less expensive that a complete rule system (even if less flexible, but for what I read this should suffice in many cases). Luca
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAKoxK%2B6Jwc-4VaiDmBqd_=-1Ur5FbFqNVWSU8okyfA3pZJ3Yfg>