One side effect of all this is that /dev/cdrom will _have_ to be a symlink
now. Device naming policy is now a kernel issue and no longer an admin
issue.
A second point. More a question. Under the new devfs scheme can I put
devices in other parts of the filesystem? If there are no major/minor
numbers, can I create a device file called 'core' that is really /dev/null
(without using a symlink)? Sure, symlinks work almost all of the time but
there are cases where you might want a device somewhere else.
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