Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:26:09 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> 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!

Or you can have a root NTFS and still have a workable /dev even though
NTFS doesnt support device files. Admittedly a strange case but devfs
handles it elegantly

-Dan

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