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SubjectRE: devfs: The conclusion.
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?

-Shawn
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