> The only useful thing of devfs is the workaround of the device drivers
> kdev_t numer without have to play with userlevel code. The only people
> that you replyed "use devfs to do that" was asking about how to handle >
> 16SCSI disk.
It's very useful here, as I tend to remount / ro sometimes. How
do you handle this without devfs? Sure, you create a ramdisk,
copy over /dev (of course not the full /dev, as it wouldnt fit...)
and mount it over /dev. OOPS - does not work, as still some
prgs has open inodes on the old /dev....
Richard.
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