mueller6...@twc.com ("Thomas Mueller") writes:
>It's a nuisance not to be able to recognize all partitions on a
>GPT-partitioned drive because not enough dk* nodes have been configured.
>FreeBSD even distinguishes between USB or SCSI disks and SATA disks, and
>between GPT partitions and
On May 30, 14:24, Michael van Elst wrote:
} mueller6...@twc.com ("Thomas Mueller") writes:
}
} > Where do I find the "enough dk* nodes" mode? Would it be in
} > the kernel config? I never saw it.
}
} You can run devpubd. When a wedge and thus the dk* unit attaches, it
} runs the 01-makedev
from Michael van Elst:
> mueller6...@twc.com ("Thomas Mueller") writes:
> >It's a nuisance not to be able to recognize all partitions on a
> >GPT-partitioned drive because not enough dk* nodes have been configured.
> >FreeBSD even distinguishes between USB or SCSI disks and SATA disks, and
>
mueller6...@twc.com ("Thomas Mueller") writes:
>Where do I find the "enough dk* nodes" mode? Would it be in the kernel
>config? I never saw it.
You can run devpubd. When a wedge and thus the dk* unit attaches, it
runs the 01-makedev hook that creates the device node in /dev.
from John Nemeth:
> On May 29, 22:52, David Holland wrote:
> } On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 05:41:38PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
}
> } > > For disks, which for historical reasons live in both cdevsw and
> } > > bdevsw, both entries would point at the same disk_dev.
} >
> } > I would suggest
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 08:43:00PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > We should really get with the times and create a devfs. I know that
> > there are people that disagree with this (likely including you), but
> > the archaic device node system causes a lot of headaches and it's
> > time that we joined the
>> You can run devpubd. When a wedge and thus the dk* unit attaches,
>> it runs the 01-makedev hook that creates the device node in /dev.
> That's not a "mode". It's a clunky userland daemon that tries to
> make up for the fact that we don't have a devfs.
Your wording is heavily biased.
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