On 15-Apr-2000 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> FWIW, it would be a trivial hack to make autofs capable of generating
> device nodes on demand. I have yet to see any strong use for that,
> though; emphasis here on "on demand."
The most awkward thing about adding devfs stuff to autofs stuff is
allowing non-daemon processes to create device nodes. That would change
a number of assumptions about what can happen when.
On the other hand, that leads to an interesting possibility for devfs.
Rather than using tar to save/restore the device tree, and rather than
using some VFS hacking to get to an "underlying" filesystem, why not just
pass mknod/mkdir/symlink/unlink/rmdir/chown/chmod events through to devfsd
so it can keep track of the current state of /dev in real time? Then
there's no problem saving and restoring it. And it will be just another
userfs/autofs/nfs/coda kernel<->userspace filesystem protocol.
J
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