>>>Linus Torvalds said:
>
> Exactly. This is the kind of thing that makes devfs worth it. Together
> with some way of specifying these things for the whole network (I wasn't
> kidding when I mentioned NIS) it actually gives system administrators
> something new. And it makes for more than just a regular /dev on a regular
> filesystem.
This sounds just like autofs to me! The only difference with /dev is
that you would be creating block or character special files instead of
soft links and nfs mounts.
> Imagine devfs together with network block devices - you could quite
> transparently handle local/non-local disks etc, without the user even
> knowing. And with the sysadmin being able to change what /dev/hda is
> without having to even log onto the machine in question..
>
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G. Allen Morris III
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