Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Aug 1998 17:24:39 -0500 (CDT) | From | Shawn Leas <> | Subject | RE: devfs: The conclusion. |
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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Taral wrote:
> How about having it store the inodes in /dev on the underlying filesystem? > (Or is it too hard to make the system permit mounts over non-empty > directories...) Also, does devfs actually create all those inodes when it > initializes? Why not just generate listings, etc. on the fly? The tables are > always there in memory. No need to create an effective duplicate.
There is no need, DevFS uses negligable memory, and stripping it down so that it didn't have to be a whopping <23k is kind of old-world, wouldn't you say?
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