Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:30:50 +0200 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers) |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > Plan 9 ones.
Ah, this. Is this something that somebody is working on ? People have been talking about Plan 9 name spaces for many years, but it seems that not too much emerged from that.
>> Isn't the device file sufficient ? > > For NFS?
Major 0, minor dynamically assigned. Fairly trivial to use with something like the /proc/mount-devs I've proposed. As far as the device file is concerned, you can either
- create it on the fly (e.g. LILO does that if it doesn't find anything suitable in /dev) - populate /dev with unnamed0, unnamed1, etc. - get devfs to do all this for you (if you have devfs) - create a /proc/unnamed-dev/<number> virtual directory
Each of the solutions looks a bit hackish, but then maybe it's just a question of getting used to it ;-)
- Werner
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