Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:56:44 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS? Message-ID: <20010311115643.H18351@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpitlg5jd8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:02:43PM %2B0100 References: <20010311115147.L57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103110003160.68894-100000@beppo.feral.com> <20010311112923.A41738@bank-pedersen.dk> <20010311032701.G18351@fw.wintelcom.net> <xzpitlg5jd8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [010311 09:02] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes: > > Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs > > vinum does. > > Why not? make_dev_alias() is cheap and easy to use. Take a look at the /dev/vinum tree under devfs and non-devfs systems and you'll understand why I wanted to get rid of the symlinks. Basically, I found them to be distasteful and not worth keeping around. To completely emulate the rats' nest of symlinks I would have had to link to outside disks as well, I really didn't want to do that. Lastly make_dev_alias() is undocumented. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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