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Re: geom, devfs


From: Lucas Reddinger <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:12:53 -0600

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:25:07 +0200, ibotty <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> .. and what about devfs? i like the concept of having only these
> device nods, that need to be there. (do we really need mknod?, the
> kernel should know better, what he supports).
> i guess, this will have to wait till matt completes his vfs overhaul.

I'm not sure about the devfs overhead (if not negligable), but it may be
something to possibly rule devfs out. Also, devfs seems to have a lot of
shortcomings. If it is backported, I hope that a better RC system is
used to alter permissions. It is currently insufficient in FreeBSD-5.

Lucas



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