* Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 21:20] wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 20:39:03 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 15:21] wrote:
> >> On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs
> >>> vinum does.
> >>
> >> The only symlinks that the non-devfs version makes are to the drives.
> >> Everything else is device nodes. But yes, it doesn't make as many
> >> device nodes, and that is a Good Thing.
> >>
> >>> Try using /dev/vinum/vol/raid01 instead of /dev/vinum/raid01
> >>>
> >>> (notice you need the '/vol/' path component)
> >>
> >> I missed that. This is not correct. The directory /dev/vinum/vol
> >> should go away.
> >
> > Er, too late. :)
> >
> > On a devfs system here's what you'll see:
> >
> >>> ls -lR /dev/vinum/
> > total 0
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000001 Feb 22 21:26 Control
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000002 Feb 22 21:26 control
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000000 Feb 22 21:26 controld
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 plex
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 sd
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 vol
> >
> > /dev/vinum/plex:
> > total 0
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 1 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0
> >
> > /dev/vinum/sd:
> > total 0
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 2 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s0
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x10000002 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s1
> >
> > /dev/vinum/vol:
> > total 0
> > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0
> >
> >
> > I'd like to keep it this way, it just makes sense.
>
> No, that's a gratuitous change. All the docco talks about keeping the
> volumes in the main directory. That's why people are having trouble.
> Yes, it looks more uniform, but the objects aren't uniform.
Since both you and Poul refused to fix the code I choose how I thought
it should be. Can you explain why:
> Yes, it looks more uniform, but the objects aren't uniform.
It just doesn't make sense to me to mix these device nodes in
with the control/Control/controld nodes. Also, why not have
a /dev/vinum/ctl/ directory for those nodes?
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