Re: dac960 devices on boot-floppies
Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 04:24:06PM -0600, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Yikes. We now have 254 devices under /dev/rd. Full list below. Any
> > way we can trim this down?
>
> I only ever bothered to create nodes for drives 0-3. Perhaps it would
> be acceptable to drop the other 28. Or perhaps keep only 8 drives.
I not quite sure I understand this -- I'm just running MAKEDEV
dac960.0. That makes rd/c0d{0..31}*. You're saying I can safely
delete rd/c0d{4..31} ?
> You could drop the extended partitions - nasty, but another 50% reduction.
>
> Does it matter that much? Ramdisk, right?
Yup. It's not critical... but it seems like a lotta devices.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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