devfs: proposal to create links for bootdevice

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Aug 23 12:03:50 UTC 2010


In message <4C72569B.9050807 at Haakh.de>, "Dr. A. Haakh" writes:
>Hi,
>
>it would be nice if device-nodes like bda, bdb, bdc ... could be created 
>at boot time referring to the partitions of the boot-device.
>
>With these nodes in your fstab you don't have to edit fstab if devices 
>change.

Use g_label ?

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