From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Nov 13 0:39: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a13c051.neo.rr.com [204.210.212.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646FE14C13 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:39:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA13778; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 03:37:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 03:37:23 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Nowlin To: Eric Lee Green Cc: Michael Searle , mjacob@feral.com, Marc van Kempen , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? In-Reply-To: <99111107110301.32323@ehome.inhouse> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Especially since FreeBSD device nodes don't back up right under Linux :-(. > (Due to brain damage on the Linux side of things, BTW -- not enough space fin > their device struct for the longer FreeBSD major/minor numbers). As part of my "FreeBSD-backs-up-to-Linux-over-the-network" script, it starts out by doing an "ls -l > /devicelist" before the actual backup starts... Not really pretty, but it does save the important (but not all) info about /dev... One of these days, I'll make it so that the backup script creates a shell script with a bunch of mknod's in it instead... An icky workaround, but it does the job I need.... mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message