Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:10:27 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: abial@nask.pl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? Message-ID: <199809220810.SAA05183@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> This could probably be done better by moving the creation of the whole >> disk devices to dsopen() and calling dsopen() for each device just before >> mounting root. > >Good idea, do you have a patch (hint hint) :) Now I remember why it is not such a good idea :-). Removable disks may not be there, and some disk drivers spew printfs when they are not there. This was especially annoying for floppy disks under SLICE. Keeping the list in userland allows better control. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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