Subject: Re: devfs, was Re: FreeBSD 5/6/7 kernel emulator for NetBSD 2.x
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/27/2005 21:29:28
In message <20051028004215.GG16197@netbsd.org>, Bill Studenmund writes:
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>Thus "sd6" is what the administrator wants to be "sd6".
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Precisely -- that's the whole point of using locators. Rather, it's
the whole point of using something that won't change if other hardware
is added to or removed from the system.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb