Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:18:06 +1000 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: Device Naming under Linux [Long] |
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Robert de Bath writes: > > 2) user space symlinks are usually a bad idea. > Agreed > > > 3) devfs > I really dislike this, it feels a lot like putting /dev onto a ramdisk > with a special program to copy stuff from /proc and gives me a really > fragile feeling.
On the contrary, devfs is *quite* robust and clean. And it solves the problem of major&minor sizes once and for all: you don't need them at all! Devfs is not just /dev in a ramdisc. Read the README on it to see why it's a good idea. Without devfs you need a sequence of hacks to solve some of the problems.
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