Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:16:26 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:08:40AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:27:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And then a high-quality implementation actually ends up being > > _detrimental_. It's hiding problems that can still happen, they just > > happen rarely enough that the bugs don't get found and fixed. > Empty talk. This is not about finding and fixing bugs. > We know very precisely what properties the NFS protocol has. > Now one can have a system that works as well as possible with NFS. > And one can have a worse system.
It seems to me that as long as /dev is always a local mount (tmpfs in the case of an NFS-root installation), it doesn't really matter. Maintaining system-specific information on a remote machine seems dirty, and something that shouldn't be *expected* to work. You wouldn't expect /proc to work over NFS, would you? :-)
mark
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