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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:20:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010127172056.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101271238240.13274-100000@zeppo.feral.com>

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On 27-Jan-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> Hmm.,... though you may be right.... mfs didn't mount for me now... but that
> may be the usual userland<>kernel mismatch...

One should use md(4) and mdconfig(8) rather than MFS nowadays anyways, which
does work with DEVFS.

>> That's old information. That's got to be from Julian's devfs- not the
>> current
>> one.
>> 
>> 
>> > Matthew Jacob once stated:
>> > =
>> > =Yes, time to move on with this...
>> > 
>> > But, but, but... From NOTES (aka LINT):
>> > 
>> >    # This code is still experimental (e.g. doesn't handle disk slices
well).
>> >    # Also, 'options MFS' is currently incompatible with DEVFS.
>> >    # You can configure the DEVFS (e.g. setting device permissions) in the
>> >    # /etc/rc.devfs file.
>> >    options         DEVFS                   #devices filesystem
>> > 
>> >    -mi
>> > 
>> > => phk         2001/01/27 00:18:36 PST
>> > => 
>> > =>   Modified files:
>> > =>     sys/i386/conf        GENERIC 
>> > =>   Log:
>> > =>   Turn DEVFS on by default.
>> > =>   
>> > =>   You may need to turn this off if you you vinum.  Apart from that I
>> > know of
>> > =>   no reason not to run with DEVFS.
>> > =>   
>> > =>   Revision  Changes    Path
>> > =>   1.300     +2 -2      src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
>> > => 
>> > => 
>> > =
>> > 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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