devfs: proposal to create links for bootdevice

Dr. A. Haakh bugReporter at Haakh.de
Mon Aug 23 12:58:15 UTC 2010



Poul-Henning Kamp schrieb:
> 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 ?
>   
glabel is an option if you have just one slice to boot from. If you have 
several OSes using ufs (e.g 7.3 and 8.1) then you would have to
use different labels and again different entries in fstab.  Generic 
entries like the ones described above would be helpful.


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