> >- What can be done with devfs can be done without it. Granted, it is less
> > convenient. But I add/remove devices from my machines perhaps once a
> > month, so that doesn't cut it for me.
>
> No it can't. USB, PCMCIA, major/minor limitations, SCSI re-addressing
> (sdc turning into sdb when sdb goes away), among others...
>
An example of the major/minor limitation is that you cannot have more then 15
partitions on a SCSI drive. I ran into this when I hooked up a 50G raid
array for use with Informix, where informix wanted multiple 2G partitions
to use.
David Lang
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