From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 25 15: 0:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E1F837B638 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jar@integratus.com) Received: (qmail 12626 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2000 22:00:18 -0000 Received: from kungfu.integratus.com (HELO integratus.com) (172.20.5.168) by tortuga1.integratus.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2000 22:00:18 -0000 Message-ID: <397E0DF2.FDC595C5@integratus.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:00:18 -0700 From: Jack Rusher Organization: Integratus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much do we need the all-singing, all-dancing devfs? References: <14653.964561230@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > You can still get a listing of the "canonical" names like "/dev/ad0", > "/dev/ad0s1c" and so on. > > It is only "potential names" which are not listed until they have > been instantiated. Um... forgive me if this is obvious and the cough syrup I had this morning is weighing me down, but how do you know to which object (by which I mean storage device, partition, etc) the "canonical" name points to? Matthew Jacob wrote: > > ad hoc, even as it is now- 'camcontrol devlist' and parsing dmesg output. This is what I was afraid of. It strikes me that this sort of sucks, and that there really should be a better way. This is the sort of thing that a devfs is meant to make go away, isn't it? -- Jack Rusher, Senior Engineer | mailto:jar@integratus.com Integratus, Inc. | http://www.integratus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message