-- Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I guess silence means Devfs works as expected :)))
As long as you don't try and do what I'm doing <G>. I
think devfs is a neat concept and from what I've read has
a lot of advantages although my knowledge of devices under
Linux has been limited to createing entries in /dev under
the old system and making that work. I don't know what
distros use it (not Caldera's old WS 3.1 or RH 7.3) so
maybe most of the people I see aren't running distros with
it.
Mandrake was one of the first distros to use it (in 8.0 IIRC). The first
attempt was a disaster, but since then we learned a bit :)
It is easy to screw up things when you use devfs. Basically, you should
not mess up with /dev unless _absolutely_ necessary and you _do_ know
what you are doing.
If you updated /dev/tape to magically appear the changerizer
uses the same basic sequence.
Another way to put it: let devfsd manaqge /dev, that's
what it IS there for. Instead of ln -fs in /dev update
/etc/devfsd.conf using, say, "tape" as a template for
the changer device -- all you really need to do is hack
"tape" for "changer" (whatever) and "tape/0/mt" for the
device path to the changerizer.
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