Last I heard, Linus was still thinking about devfs and was leaning
slightly towards it. But that was sometime last year. I've not heard
from him since.
> I did took there a brief look, and I see something like:
>
> | /dev/hda /dev/ide/hd/c0b0t0u0
> | /dev/hdb /dev/ide/hd/c0b0t1u0
>
> But I still don't see how does it make sure that it does the "Right Thing"
> and that the /dev/hdaX won't get renamed to some other id when there
> appears a new parition/slice.
The intent with devfs is to append "s#" for BSD slice numbers to solve
this problem. The normal (primary&extended) partitions use "p#" (with
the existing partition number scheme). So in the end, you could have
"c#b#t#u#p#s#".
I've not got BSD slices on my system, so I don't know what actually
happens: it's been a long time since I looked at that part of the
code.
Regards,
Richard....
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