Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:14:51 +0200 | From | Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:54:26 +0200, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no> wrote: > Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: > > > > >devfs was very natural, and simple solution. But to have it right, it > >would have to be the only /dev filesystem. > >But no, we like choices, so we have chaos. > >Udev is just another thing adding to that chaos. > > > >Someone was numbering things that are good in BSD design, in that > >thread. One of those things was going for devfs. No cheap solutions. > >One fs for /dev. And it works great. > > > >Sorry for bit of trolling. > > > > > Devfs was a ver good idea. The implementation of it > was a problem, and after some time nobody maintained it. > No surprise it had to go. Now udev+tmpfs can do the same > job, and more.
udef is a one big mistake, having need for userspace tool to use FS is at least silly. I can understeand need for some things in kernel to have userspace daemon. But FS is out of question the least one.
I am supprised noone wanted to maintain devfs. Maybe because people didn't want to go to devfs only. But still to have classic /dev. It's also silly, because person writing driver needs to choose between, or implement all. That's more than bad. Once I have loads of time, and no work in KDE, I can take over devfs happily :-)
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