Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:19:46 +1000

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Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:
>
> >In saying waiting, I wasn't meaning the human style foot tapping, coffee
> >getting, *long wait* that it might have sounded like. I meant that little
> >bit of time spent is unnecessary. Bigger deal for some than others, no?
>
> You really don' t understand that the inode lookup time is not an issue.
> Please really stop using it as and argument in favor of devfs.

How long does it take to lookup a million inodes? This is not
significant?

Regards,

Richard....

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