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[John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>]

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