[SM-Discuss] Using devfsd
John T Copeland
johnc at neto.com
Wed Jun 11 13:10:33 EDT 2003
Eric Sandall wrote:
>Andrew said:
>
>
>>Ive brought this up a number of times, never gotten anywhere, wrote
>>a spell, had it forgotten, mentioned it to people on irc, had it
>>forgotten, I dont understand what the problem is. devfsd makes all the
>>symlinks for you, sets permissions appropriatly however you ask it, and
>>'just works'.
>>
>>all that is necessary is to have it installed then ask mount.sh to run
>>it for you, no magic necessary.
>>
>>Ive had /devices symlinked to /dev for nearly a year now, not one
>>problem. We should have had this fixed a long long time ago.
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>
>I suggest that we have those whom have devfsd already working on /dev as a
>replacement for using both /dev and /devices get together (on MLs or IRC)
>to discuss how to have the default system use this, from being installed
>from an ISO to "upgrading" currently running systems to use the new
>method.
>
>Volunteers? I'll volunteer to test. ;)
>
>-sandalle
>
>
>
I'll volunteer to test also.
JohnC
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