From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 1: 8: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B67815AC2 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 01:07:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA94862; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:06:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id CAA16234; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:05:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909200805.CAA16234@harmony.village.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: what is devfs? Cc: Chuck Robey , Julian Elischer , Wayne Cuddy , FreeBSD Hackers List In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:20:06 EDT." References: Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:05:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : Seems like a devfsd using the file monitoring hooks would work; you'd only : update the persistent store if you were running devfsd. devfsd would read : the store and init /dev with the contents. I think the only issue that : would involve thinking would be whiteouts (and the actual devfsd code of : course.) Yes. That's my thinking as well. I was also thinking of having devfsd do more than simpler persistance. I had plans, which I never tried to implement, of having it assume some of the roles of pccardd and usbd... Too bad I've lost the original start I made on devfsd. At least I can't find it on my home systems right now. I fear I either lost it in a disk crash, or when I left my last employer... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message