> I make extensive use of softraid crypto on two internal and a bunch of
> external disks. This results in up to 32 sd(4) devices attaching to
> my machine. However, by default MAKEDEV only creates 10 sd device
> nodes in /dev.
>
> How do people deal with this? For now, I've got the following in
> /etc/rc.local:
>
> # Create extra entries in /dev for all (softraid) disks
> cd /dev
> for X in `jot 25 10`
> do
> [ -f sd${X}c ] || sh MAKEDEV sd${X}
> done
>
> Does anyone have a better approach?
>
This is just an idea.
Can you simply edit,
/usr/src/etc/etc.`uname -p`/MAKEDEV.md
to produce a /dev/MAKEDEV which will create all 32 device files by
default?
