On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:59:33AM -0500, Michael Shuey wrote: > > > > But how long will that last. What I want to know is, what question > > > > was devfs an answer to? There must have been one, right? Is it a > > > > > devfs is a solution in search of a problem. > > > > that's what I thought. > > devfs is _great_. Solaris has had this sort of thing (albeit with shorter > to type names) for about a decade; it's about time Linux got something like > it. devfs gives absolute names based on device locations. While average > users aren't likely to see much benefit, people with truckloads of swappable > disks, CDs, etc. need something like this to avoid having to constantly > edit /etc/fstab between boots. With devfs I can finally add a SCSI target > in the middle of my chain and not have half my disks change their device > names. you don't need devfs to get static naming. see OpenBSD. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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