Messages in this thread |  | | From | Marek Michalkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: dev | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:20:49 +0100 (MET) |
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Karl R. Heyes: > Here are some reasons why people have wanted a "dev-fs" system. > > 1. Number of entries. I've just looked at my system and I have well over > 650 entries and I have nothing special on system. > > 2. Many unused entries. A standard setup will create many entries, even > though you don't need them. Having unused entries affects the lookup of > /dev.
I'm just wondering: why not start making use of directories in /dev? This seems to be common practice on most UNIX systems these days. /dev/vcs/63 instead of /dev/vcs63 - you get the idea. We have to keep /dev/tty?? because many programs still make assumptions about such tty device names, but that's all... Another example where we have lots of devices: all the disk partitions. Maybe we should adapt the /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s? convention from other systems? All this should help making /dev shorter and lookups faster. (This is not really kernel related - maybe it should be discussed with the FHS group?)
Marek
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