Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Helge Hafting]

Grzegorz JaÅkiewicz wrote:

> devfs was very natural, and simple solution. But to have it right, it
> would have to be the only /dev filesystem.
> But no, we like choices, so we have chaos. 
> Udev is just another thing adding to that chaos.
>
> Someone was numbering things that are good in BSD design, in that
> thread. One of those things was going for devfs. No cheap solutions.
> One fs for /dev. And it works great.
>
> Sorry for bit of trolling.
>  
Devfs was a ver good idea.  The implementation of it
was a problem, and after some time nobody maintained it.
No surprise it had to go.  Now udev+tmpfs can do the same
job, and more.

Helge Hafting
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