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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

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

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:25:26PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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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