No. I don't have such a huge /dev. But read the devfs FAQ about a
fully populated /dev which supports all possible SCSI devices. That is
8 million inodes (when we finally break the 16 SCSI disc limit, we'll
have to look at the many inodes issue). This clearly shows that a
fully populated /dev is not workable. Some kind of solution is needed
for this, be it devfs or scsidev. Scsidev only solves it for SCSI, it
doesn't fix USB, for example.
> 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).
8 million inodes for a fully populated /dev. Really.
Regards,
Richard....
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