Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:29:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: Alain Brauner <bsdinfo@freegate.gna.org>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tips and tricks Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980603092128.9203B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980603081954.336C-100000@broker>
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
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> > Thanks for useful comments. I planned to add some of these, and others are
> > new to me. Thanks.
>
> and i definitely second that ! must play around with devfs a little...
Heh... That's the part I did... However, this stuff is still made of
glass, and any uncareful treatment breaks it to pieces. As it is now, the
DEVFS panics when mounting an msdos floppy, so I'd say let's wait with it
a while. Once it's relatively stable, it will be a big win - big savings
on number of required inodes, no need to manually create the right set of
device nodes etc...
And DEVFS is purely 3.0-current thing - I doubt it will ever be ported to
2.2.x line... I'm afraid that's bad news for you, Dinesh :-( but it would
require massive changes in kernel...
Andrzej Bialecki
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