> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > /dev can be cleaned up using rm(1). devfs at one point used tarballs
> > to handle permissions, now it doesn't, it uses a configuration file, which
> > makes it even more strange and un-filesystem like. I don't use a config file
> > to specify my permissions on my / partition.
>
> I hate to point this out... but if the objection is to configuration
> files, then what about /etc/fstab and the mount options that allow me to
> mount CD-ROM drives and MS-DOS/FAT32 partitions as various users with
> various permissions?
>
> The use of a config file to determine permissions/ownership is not foreign
> to the kernel or filesystems.
But it is to files inside a filesystem..
Stephen
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