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["Dufflebunk" <dufflebunk AT go-nix.ca>]

SMGL seems to have always had a fear of daemons. I remember asking the same
thing and was told that it was another daemon and they wanted to avoid them
(this was before I became one of 'they' ;).

And the /devices sol'n doesn't always work. vtun for example needs a patch
to get it to work when the devices directroy isn't /dev.

Oh, and devfsd is PITA to get working. We don't even have an init system
that's up to par (IMHO), how would we find the people to take care of the
devices stuff?

--------- Original Message --------
> Hi all,
>
> I was just talking to a friend whom would like to start using SMGL
> (currently using Gentoo, but said that he is getting frustrated) and he
> asked me why we have /dev and /devices, so I explained to him that way
> back when we were all Sorcerer, /dev was for applications that still
> required the old device system and /devices was for the new devfs system,
> without breaking the other.  He then mentioned that this method is not
> needed, as `devfsd` will create the old /dev links as appropriate (i.e.
> /dev/hda1 -> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1) and that we don't
> need separate directories.
>
> What shall we do?  Keep it the same, or move on to using the "new
way" and
> remove /devices and /dev, then use `devfsd` to create a devfs system in
> /dev with the appropriate old system links?  I also have heard that
> FreeBSD 5.1 now supports only devfs (no old dev links at all).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -sandalle
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