Re: DevFS holy war

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:02:26PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:20:23PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > what for setting CONFIG_FS_DEVFS=n solves the problem very nicely, and
> > without extra package/daemon running as root bloat.
> 
> The cost of devfs is a small increase in kernel code size and memory
> usage.

i beleive the accusation was that devfsd was required to get a flat /dev
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namespace, similar to the pre-devfs days.

-john

oddly enough, my non-devfs has a /dev/input/ directory. so much for flat
namespaces.