Re: USB device allocation

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:29:55 -0400

Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> said:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, David Weinehall wrote:
> > With a decently sized dev_t we will still have the problem with a
> > cluttered /dev directory. With devfs we won't.
> > And if you still want your standard, cluttered, /dev directory, you can
> > still have it with devfs.

> My /dev takes 107kbyte on disk (2,245 entries!), this is even just a small
> fraction of devices.

If it bothers you, delete what you don't need.

> Adding usb etc will only make this wastage worse.

Let me get this straight. You want to add hundreds of devices to a system
where 100Kb of disk space makes a noticeable burden. Are you running from a
floppy, perhaps? The smallest disks you can get around here are some 4Gb.

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