From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 31 17:08:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1419816A400 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:08:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925B913C4BF for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0VGRqm3086699; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:27:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0VGRqxk086698; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:27:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:27:52 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Freminlins Message-ID: <20070131162752.GA85152@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20070126174826.GA13730@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070126234756.GA19420@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070128184925.GB61662@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070129142029.GA45960@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:30:13 +0100 (CET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:08:50 -0000 On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:25:24AM +0000, Freminlins typed: > Kris, > > On 29/01/07, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > >To put it bluntly, it's something you're just going to have to get > >over :-) > > > That's unhelpful. It is, in my opinion, a bad idea to have to mount up 1400 > instances of devfs just to get a few device nodes. It just doesn't seem > right. It's a kludge. What I will do instread is migrate the box to Solaris > where I can do what I want to do. Not exactly. Solaris, especially Solaris 10 is relying more and more on pseudo filesystems. # uname -srpi SunOS 5.10 sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 # mount | grep '^/devices' /devices on /devices read/write/setuid/devices/dev=47c0000 on Thu Nov 2 16:14:25 2006 Everything in /dev is just a symlink to /devices. -- Ruben