Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: USB device allocation | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:29:55 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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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. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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