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SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
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> Depending on how USB is implemented under Linux, it may require a dynamic
> namespace that dev_fs can provide. Note that I did _not_ say that _only_
> dev_fs can provide this, but that it _can_. Currently, however, it is the
> _only_ solution that does provide this.

Fact:

Its not. PCMCIA does this all without dev_fs and has for ages. You don't
need dev_fs to do dynamic name spaces. Also dev_fs places the name space
management in the kernel which violates the great "policy in user space"
rule of Unix.

> Similarly, dev_fs may provide the groundwork for the next "great thing",
> perhaps the idea that Ted came up with re: volume names (which being a
> former NetWare admin *does* appeal to me greatly). But the simple fact is
> that dev_fs is here today, Ted's idea is not.

Fact:

It is UUIDs have been in ext2fs for a while


Otherwise carry on...


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