Christoph Hellwig writes:
> 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:
> - a automount module (attached), that mounts the fs by the name of
> the subdir it will be mounted on, so with a /etc/auto.device that
> contains the following line:
>
> -------------------- snip -------------------
> * -fstype=devfs :none
> -------------------- snip -------------------
>
> a lookup on /device/tts will mount the 'tts' file system on
> /devices/tts (/devices should be /dev once we get union-mounts) >
> - every driver has a built-in file system that has the name of
> the /dev subdir.
What an appallingly bad idea. So instead of one filesystem, we now
have dozens?!? Talk about kernel bloat! So what exactly is the point
of this exercise? What problems are you solving? And if you are
solving any real technical problems, why can't that be done with
devfs+devfsd?
Regards,
Richard....
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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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