Re: devfs - why not ?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 16:52:20 EST


> If I have to run a freaky userspace probe to identify where some
> block device that I need to access not as a filesystem went on this
> boot, and modify said probe to deal with the possible content of
> that block device when a new possibility pops up, I've lost.

You need to start accepting that your file system might move devices while
you are running too. Thats coming down the pipeline already.

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