RE: devfs: The conclusion.

Taral (taral@mail.utexas.edu)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 18:42:18 -0500

Actually, I was more thinking about the way the /dev space could be altered
for compatability (adding links, etc.)... making it a merged FS would enable
us to store those links ;)

Taral

> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:
>
> Sorry, just realized... That didn't address what you were saying at
> all!... As a matter of fact, I really don't know quite how to answer that
> one... As for your "union-fs" idea, it's been done in FreeBSD, and the
> thought really doen't fit in the DevFS picture. Unneeded, sort of.
>
> As for DevFS "creating all those inodes", you might be thinking of the
> Device FS namespace a little simplisticly.
>
> I hope I've maybe come close this time, eh?
>
> -Shawn

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