On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:38:22AM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > c) the whole concept of monolytic devfs is a bullshit, excusable
> > only because we lack union-mounts. As soon as they are in the devfs will
> > be heading out. There _is_ a point in a driver providing a tiny filesystem
>
> Will it now? Is that what Linus thinks, too? I'm sure he had a good
> reason to include devfs. Even once we have union mounts, devfs will
> still be useful.
Funny.
I remember Linus once saying union file systems should be done in user
space.
mrc
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