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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
    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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    GJ
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