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SubjectRe: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
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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