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SubjectRe: initrd redesign (was Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers)
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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