Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: devfs not ready for prime time yet? Message-ID: <199812122016.MAA00300@apollo.backplane.com>
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I tried messing around with devfs, using a minimal /dev (just std
devices like /dev/zero) and then immediately mount_devfs'ing over
it at the top of /etc/rc.
It almost works. For some odd reason, wd0 gets really, really confused.
When I try to boot using devfs for /dev, fsck fails instantly trying
to fsck IDE drives on wd0. If I drop into /bin/sh, the first time I
run disklabel on wd0 the disklabel only sees wd0c. The second time it
sees wd0a,b,c,d,...g. The third time it gets an ioctl error. The
fourth time it seens all the partitions.
It then alternates between getting an ioctl error and seeing all the
partitions. At some point down the line, disklabel simply locks up
in an unkillable fashion.
devfs looks like it should work, but there are obviously some serious
problems left with it. Is anybody working on devfs ? I would, ultimately,
like to see the kernel auto-mount /dev as part of the boot sequence, just
after it mounts the root drive, but for now I'd be happy if I could mount
it over a minimal disk-based /dev in /etc/rc.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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