Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 May 2002 13:21:10 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 |
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Patrick Mochel writes: > > On Tue, 7 May 2002, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Patrick Mochel writes: > > > Oh, and it's with a modern, clean filesystem, 1/5 the size of devfs. > > > > The size argument is not an issue. I've already said that devfs will > > shrink a lot once I move tree management from my own code to the VFS. > > I agree 100%. However, I think that move will be very painful. I > tried to do it a couple of months ago, and there were so many > interdependencies and oddities that I gave up after about 6 hours.
Oh, it's certainly more that 6 hours of work. But it *will* get done.
> > At that point devfs will mostly be: > > - an API > > - a way fo supporting the devfsd protocol. > > I argue that you shouldn't need a separate daemon. We already have > the /sbin/hotplug interface. It's simple and sweet. We shouldn't > need to rely on an entirely separate daemon.
The devfsd protocol is more lightweight. Plus it doesn't require fork(2)+execve(2) overheads. And more importantly, you can capture lookup() events.
Regards,
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