Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:26:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote: > Actually, devfs makes it better. Devfs allows you to have a shared > NFS read-only root and still have a mutable /dev. And you can have > persistence too!
Or you can have a root NTFS and still have a workable /dev even though NTFS doesnt support device files. Admittedly a strange case but devfs handles it elegantly
-Dan
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