On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> > I have put all mails on the subject from tech-kern (from januari 1998
> > already) in http://www.wins.uva.nl/~frank/wedge.txt
> 
> Finally got around to reading this last night.
> 
> I believe the problem of assigning drivers to disk partitions is very
> similar (if not operationally equivalent) to the problem of managing
> device nodes for USB and PCMCIA and any other hot-pluggable hierarchy
> of devices.
> 
> 	sd0 at scsibus0 target 0
> 	raw0 at sd0 lun 0
> 	mbr0 at raw0
> 	dosfs0 at mbr0 partition 0
> 	dosfs1 at mbr0 partition 1
> 	bsdlabel0 at mbr0 partition 3
> 	ffs0 at bsdlabel0 partition 0
> 	swap0 at bsdlabel0 partition 1
> 	ffs1 at bsdlabel0 partition 4
> 
> 	/dev/ffs0	/	ffs	rw
> 	/dev/ffs1	/usr	ffs	rw
> 	/dev/swap0	none	swap
> 	/dev/dosfs0	/c	msdos	ro
> 	/dev/dosfs1	/d	msdos	ro
> 
> Hmm?

While I'll agree that there are elements of that hierarchy there, I don't
think this'd gain us anything. :-) Now we'd have to wire partitions down
in the kernel config file!

Take care,

Bill