Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers)
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 01:28:35 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > > Explain to me how this is different from mounting devfs onto /kernel
> > > and using devfsd to populate a disc-based /dev.
> > I think Ted disagrees with devfs making choices like lumping all
> > the, say, IDE CD drivers together, instead of separating them by IDE
> > bus.
> You mean /dev/ide/bus#/cd/device# as compared to /dev/ide/cd/location#
> I assume?
And with devfs you can easily have *both*.
-Dan
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