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

Andrew Derrick Balsa (linker@z.ml.org)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 09:43:48 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > -hpa
> >
> > 1k per device file? Geez.. Thank you. Devfs just uses a few pages of ram.
> > I.e. < 23k. :)
>
> Please go and reread your ext2 file system notes. A device node takes no
> blocks, one inode and one directory entry

Inodes take blocks and makee2fs lets you tune the number of inodes. I've
done it to get more space on a disk..

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