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

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:46:57 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

>> 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?

I think that your /dev/ directory was corrupted.

andrea@dragon:~$ ls /dev/ | wc -l
1764

The /dev/ inode lookup time is so ridicolous that I am used to use
symlinks in /dev/ (note that also many of other unix use ton of symlinks).

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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