Solaris

Hi everyone,
I am new to Unix and just started reading the book recently. I was having a difficulty understanding one topic so I thought I should post it here. I am reading the chapter on Managing File Systems and it talks about device autoconfiguration. Can somebody tell me what is the purpose for doing this? And later on the author goes on talking about reconfiguration reboot and devfsadm. I have no idea what the author is saying about this topic. Just to let you know that I am reading "Solaris 10 System Administration" by Bill Calkins.

Thank You,
Saoud

Its a administration tool on solaris 10. It lets the system administrator manage the systems devices under /dev/* more effectively. Its one of the latest tool and is obsolating another similar tool (or a suite of device nodes configuration tools) called devfs .

Device autoconfiguration means that this tool, when invoked, would search for the relevant driver by running through all the drivers available for a given device hot attached to the system and also configures the relevant device node under /dev/ directory to access that device as a file operation on that node.

Thanks..