Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) | Date | 6 Aug 1998 09:52:44 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980805205308.17170K-100000@ixion.honeywell.com> By author: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 2) Ease of system maintainence. SYSV style/looking devices tell you > EXACTLY where your disks are at a glance, and that is GOOD. Auto device > generation is good too...
Auto device generation can be a security hole, and can be done in user space without hogging tons of kernel memory.
> 3) It might help performance with some configs. > 4) It will NEVER hurt performance, only help it if ANYTHING.
devfs eats lots of kernel memory. That WILL hurt performance.
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