Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:51:56 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > And you are right: the size of /dev on a desktop or small server is
> > not hard to deal with. With devfs it is easier. Some of the things
> > that the current devfs patch change could (and IMHO should be)
> > changed even without devfs (the sd{a,b,c,d,...} brain-damage comes
> > to mind).
> mount(8), particularly "mount -L label", "mout -U uuid"

Tape drives. Generic devices. Complete braindamage.

-Dan

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