Re: [RFC] automount based devfs replacement

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 08:00:24 EST


On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 11:36:12AM -0700, david parsons wrote:
> > In article <linux.kernel.20000417124417.A813@sb.t-online.de>,
> > Christoph Hellwig <chhellwig@gmx.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >Hi,
> > >I've thought a bit about some ideas to replaced devfs with a combination
> > >of automount and many small virtual filesystems. The idea is the following:
> >
> > I'd say ick, because it seems like it's replacing a somewhat flawed
> > (odd and very non-traditional-Unix naming scheme, issues with
> > multiple mounts)
>
> The naming scheme is very UNIX-like (besides the ide & scsi devs), look at sysV.

Yuck. UNIX-like and Missed'em'V applied to the same thing? Mind boggleth...
UNIX(tm)-like - yes, but UNIX-like?

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