On 11 Apr 2000, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have read Richard Gooch's webpage on devfs and it looks like a
> brilliant idea to me. Now, I understand that Richard had to fight
> a long struggle getting devfs into the kernel and even now that it
> finally goes in, it does so in an (IMHO) somewhat crippled form
> (mounting it under /devfs instead of /dev) and there still seem to
> be many people opposed to devfs.
> So, I know the pro side of devfs, but I would like to read up on
> the objections raised so I can make a judgement for myself.
While this subject is up ... is there any problem with linking from /dev
to /devfs ?
I mean, think of a Solaris
boot -r
Imagine if linux would boot, load all of its modules and stuff, then
create a link from /dev to everything found in /devfs
maybe rather than /devfs it should be /devices ???
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