Re: HEADS up on HEAD

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matt,
I know this has been discussed before, but what about dynamic /dev ?

Petr

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Note that due to recent changes in HEAD, people using HEAD need to
>     rebuild and reinstall the kernel AND world AND do a make upgrade to
>     deal with device minor number changes that have occured.
>
>     devices will only be partially compatible with 1.8. e.g devices like
>     /dev/ad6s1a haven't changed, but raw devices like /dev/ad6 and /dev/ad6s1
>     have changed.  HEAD will no longer accept opens using the old devices.
>
>     The ATA CD driver (not NATA yet) now supports devices corresponding to
>     audio CD tracks via /dev/acd0t1 /dev/acd0t2, etc... MAKEDEV acd0t will
>     generate the devices needed.  This isn't well tested.
>
>     I've almost got the disklabel disentangled.  All the logic sequencing
>     is in place... that is, making sure the disk management layer doesn't
>     try to interpret the MBR or a disklabel until someone actually tries
>     to access something needing the MBR or a disklabel.  The maximum number
>     of slices has been increased to 128 and the maximum number of partitions
>     has been increased to 256.
>
>     I still have a few more hard coded constants to disentangle and then
>     I'll be able to work on a pluggable kernel API for slice and label
>     management.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
>
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