RE: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device a
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:35:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Shawn Leas wrote:
> From: Dan Hollis [mailto:goemon@sasami.anime.net]
> Subject: RE: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB device
> allocation) )
> >Would my devfs persistence proposal (/dev/devfs.permissions) be
> >acceptable? No userspace daemon needed. No config file needed.
> Where would the file REALLY be? Underneath (not below)
> the mount point?
Yes. The file is still there, just obscured by the mounted filesystem.
This is exactly as mounts happen now. If you have /dir with a bunch of
files in it, mounting something on /dir obscures the directory (although
the files really are still there).
-Dan
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