At 9:11 AM +0100 2/8/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Julian Elischer writes: > > > > Previously, nmdm started off with 4 devices visible in /dev now > > I don't see that.. The old behaviour was intuitive... You saw > > a device. > >This new behaviour is called a "cloning device" and it doesn't >allocate any resources until they are actually needed, which I >believe is the correct behaviour for pseudo-devices. Could there be some kind of fake "marker-device" sitting there, one which would use basically no resources, and which would change to the real-device when someone opens it? I do like the idea of some visible marker there, instead of expecting people to "just know" exactly what device-name to type. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Sun Feb 08 2004 - 12:54:58 UTC
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