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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

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

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