Re: About DEVFS (was: Re: About GEOM...)

[Paul Herman]

On 5 Jul 2002, Vladimir B.  Grebenschikov wrote:

> May be same mechanism as hints, like:
> hint.sio.0.mode=0622

As long as we are throwing out ideas:  Aside from the fact that
it's broken and at the moment wouldn't exactly DTRT, I always
figured a type of mount_unionfs() with the older filesystem /dev as
the upper layer and devfs as the lower layer would be the way to
go.

-Paul.


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Re: About DEVFS (was: Re: About GEOM...)

[Vladimir B.]

÷ Fri, 05.07.2002, × 06:39, Terry Lambert ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ:

> > Loader?
> > ie on shutdown write a list of permissions etc into a file which the
> > loader can slurp up next boot and shove into the kernel and be parsed.
> 
> This really doesn't work very well.  You end up with two sets of
> data.  Having done something like this in practice, and had to live
> with the aftermath, I don't recommend it (at all).

May be same mechanism as hints, like:
hint.sio.0.mode=0622

why not ? Symantic very similar (there are some kernel-hardcoded values
and some loader-supplied)

> > > But overall, it seems to be a move forward.  

agree.

> -- Terry
 
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