Re: HEADS UP - devfs integration update. iscsi now alpha.

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon schrieb:
>     DEVFS has gone through a bunch of debug and fix passes since the
>     initial integration and is now ready for even wider testing on master.
>
>     * Now works properly with X.
>
>     * Now works properly with mono and other applications.
>
>     * Now probes disklabels in GPT slices, and properly probes GPT slice 0.
>
>     * Misc namespace issues fixed on reprobe (there were problems with
>       iscsi and VN).
>
>     * Auto-reprobe is now synchronous from the point of view of fdisk, gpt,
>       and disklabel, or any program that is setting up slices and partitions.
>       (there were races against the creation of the actual sub-devices in
>       /dev before that are now fixed).
>
>     * mount-by-serialnumber is possible via /dev/serno/.  Example fstab:
>
> 	  serno/L41JAB0G.s1d	/	hammer rw	1 	1

Matt, do you think it's worth to even drive this one step further by 
probing device slices for HAMMER (or other types of) filesystems, and
create devfs entries like /dev/hammer/fsid or /dev/hammer/volname.volno?

This would, in case of HAMMER, make devtab kind of superfluous, despite
being very useful in general.

Regards,

  Michael