Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:53:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > explicit about what they are attached to. For example, we might have a > device name vaguely like: > /kernel/devices/pci/adaptec2980_0/id0/lun0/part1 > ...and then having a user-mode daemon make symlinks from /dev/sda1, or > /dev/disks/<fslabel>, or /dev/scsi/disks/*, or whatever new experimental > naming scheme that people want to experiment with.
I fail to see any difference between devfs and what you're proposing except the mount point.
> In the end, even if we agree that /proc should be cleaned up, that > doesn't mean we should put other code which makes similar design > choices/mistakes into the kernel. It isn't hypocritical to say that > both approaches are bad, and while we do need to fix /proc at some > point, that isn't an excuse for devfs.
So whats the excuse for devpts then? It mounts under /dev/pts.
-Dan
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