You actually haven't looked at devfsd, have you?
> I'm not against some devfs type scheme per se, but this is
> important, and devfs makes this problem _worse_ without solving much
> of the other problems that are there. The current way of populating
> /dev with everything there might ever be is broken, but gives you a
> clean, uniform way of setting persistent permissions using standard
> tools.
Actually, devfs makes it better. Devfs allows you to have a shared
NFS read-only root and still have a mutable /dev. And you can have
persistence too!
Regards,
Richard....
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