Re: devfs patch v3

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Mon, 12 Jan 98 01:48:34 -0500


On 11 Jan 1998 19:00:30 GMT, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>> If it hasen't been brought up I here by throw it into the loop. (I'll
start
>> following this thread from now on)
>>
>
>There has been a problem (scsidev, I think) to do this in user-space
>for a long time...

The problem with this it is SCSI only and it doesn't help you if
you move your boot partitions or reorder the partitions surrounding it.
(Not to mention the other problems with the current system)

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