devd limitations / automounting removable storage

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Sep 18 11:15:09 PDT 2003


In message: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030918104650.60612B-100000 at fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> writes:
: For ifnet events, we can use routing sockets.  I don't know that we have
: GEOM events as yet.  One reason to separately handle GEOM from devfs would
: be that GEOM "objects" tend to be storage devices or related notions,
: whereas devfs entries could be any number of things.

While this is true, one can ask a /dev entry what kind of object it
is.  Since one can do that, one can construct filters that will only
do things for storage objects.

I worry about putting these new event streams at the wrong level
and/or having too many of them making it hard to know what the
appropriate level/event to do something at is.

Warner


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