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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

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