Re: devfs again, (was RE: USB device allocation)

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:40:49 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
> devfs, for me at least, is mostly about having a nicer, cleaner /dev
> nodes, ones that make more sense. (c1t1d0s0-style, not this /dev/sd[a,b,c]
> junk).

If a scsi device is pulled from a chain, all the other devices shift.
It has been pointed out that this design is completely broken.
devfs is one approach to fix it. (anyone have better ones?)

-Dan

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