DevFS and "c00lness" (Re: Grub)

[Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:58:56PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:22:38PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > figure it out), and also use DevFS, because non-DevFS is a piece of
> > crap.
> 
> You mean it's not c00l. It actually works fine for most things
> and has done for many years. I don't use devfs on any of my
> systems and yet they all work perfectly.

Oh, yeah, sorry. I forgot about that feature where it shows all 29347
device entries, even if they're invalid. Ever tried doing an ls /dev? It
simply bites. Plus, with non-DevFS, you have to wonder whether it's the
driver, or the app, or locking, or ...; with DevFS, if the device isn't
there, it hasn't been initialised, or whatever. Simple.

It has nothing to do with wanting "c00l". If you want to keep this
thread up, please move it to private mail, where I can easily send it to
/dev/null.

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Daniel Stone						    <daniel@sfarc.net>
"Oooh, I'm vibrating! That'd be my sister." -TongMaster