On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> Umm... Linus, it's slightly more complex.
Everything always is. And yes, I think we need a deamon to track
additions. And I don't actually seriously think that using "tar" is a good
idea (if it was, you migth as well have a filesystem).
What I envision is more like "autofs", in fact. I really like autofs, and
it has nothing to do with the fact that Peter works in the room next-door.
It has everything to do with facts like being able to lookup the
information over NIS etc - which is exactly the kind of feature that I
think in the long run would be extremely cool for /devfs. And it's still
reasonably small, because the kernel doesn't make any real decisions.
Think of the administration advantages of something like _that_. And
that's why I think devfs is eventually really cool - not because of what
it does, but because of the _potential_.
The main reason for me to include devfs into the kernel was to try to move
the bickering about it from pure bickering to a more productive level.
Still bickering, but now, because it's integrated, I hope that not only
discussion but changes will be more open to people who might not otherwise
have cared.
Linus
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