Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:31:48 +0000 | From | Michael Gee <> | Subject | Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > but if you're using devfs why would you ever need to do the above? Devfs > > You dont have any choice. NFS says "it happens". > > > No need to mount /dev over nfs anymore. > > You have to handle NFSv3 serving to non Linux clients. And as I said the > obvious approach is to lie and claim to be using 12:20 > > > i think we're mixing up the pov of /dev/ for the server and then for > the client in the same argument. > > for a linux client with devfs, it doesn't need to nfs mount any /dev, > it's builtin like /proc. a server can export a standard filesystem > type /dev over nfs to clients, irregardless of what kind of /dev it's > using. > > So where's the problem? Also, AFAIK, the split thing is transparent > to devfs. (maybe richard can confirm this). > > devfs is a good thing. I and all the rest who have tried it and use > it regularly think so. It's compatible, it's clean, it eliminates > /dev admin maintenance. And it works really well. > > When will it be included? And if there are problems to it's > inclusion, what are they, so that a solution can be found. > > regards, > -- > Paul Jakma > paul@clubi.ie http://hibernia.clubi.ie > PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt > ------------------------------------------- > Fortune: > The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the > other 90% of the time. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
A device file system would certainly help with issues like hot swapping on USB. And it allows you to run with a remote read only root, with local USB devices that don't require real entries in /dev.
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