> To quote H. Peter Arvin again:
> <Begin Quote>
> Counter question: how much kernel memory does it take to
> keep a million devices with all their info (atime, mtime,
> ctime, permissions, ownership all included!)
> <End Quote>
> Note no one from the dev_fs side has answered this question yet.
Well, maybe someone with devfs create like 500k-1M of "virtual" devices
and tell us about the performance difference.. I don't have an immediate
interest in devfs (I only handle small systems) but it'd be very
interesting to hear about this.
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