Re: Creating /dev/dk* nodes so as to be persistent

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Why not just make more /dev/dk* nodes?
>
> Problem is how to make more /dev/dk* nodes so as to show at the next boot.

Make them in the underlying disk file system, as has been suggested to
you several times.

> I can run
> MAKEDEV dk15 dk16 dk17 ...
> but these don't survive for the next boot.

Probably because you are making those device nodes in a tmpfs file
system.

> With the devpubd line in /etc/rc.conf, "NO" changed to "YES", 
> I saw the desired /dev/dk* nodes, but haven't yet had the 
> situation where root partition needed to be fsck'ed since then.
>
> Maybe the /dev/dk* nodes would be made before fsck_root?

/etc/rc.d/devpubd runs long after /etc/rc.d/fsck_root, as you can see
by analysing the PROVIDE/REQUIRE/BEFORE lines in the scripts, or looking
at the output from "rcorder /etc/rc.d/*", or looking at the log file in
/var/run/rc.log.

--apb (Alan Barrett)