* Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 15:21] wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs
> > vinum does.
>
> The only symlinks that the non-devfs version makes are to the drives.
> Everything else is device nodes. But yes, it doesn't make as many
> device nodes, and that is a Good Thing.
>
> > Try using /dev/vinum/vol/raid01 instead of /dev/vinum/raid01
> >
> > (notice you need the '/vol/' path component)
>
> I missed that. This is not correct. The directory /dev/vinum/vol
> should go away.
Er, too late. :)
On a devfs system here's what you'll see:
~ % ls -lR /dev/vinum/
total 0
crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000001 Feb 22 21:26 Control
crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000002 Feb 22 21:26 control
crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000000 Feb 22 21:26 controld
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 plex
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 sd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 vol
/dev/vinum/plex:
total 0
crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 1 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0
/dev/vinum/sd:
total 0
crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 2 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s0
crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x10000002 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s1
/dev/vinum/vol:
total 0
crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0
I'd like to keep it this way, it just makes sense.
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