From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike Subject: Re: devfs Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:09:14 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4020FD0A.8020009@kevino.org> References: <020320040659.23735.27fe@comcast.net> <40208ADF.7010307@kevino.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40208ADF.7010307@kevino.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org mike wrote: > beolach@comcast.net wrote: > >> Sorry for the length of this reply, I was bored and felt like writing >> a novel. > > > Thats quite alright, I need to have things spelled out to me. > And your explanation helped me understand quite abit more of whats going > on. > >> Well, no you don't *need* to have devfs, and it would be really easy >> to remove, >> but I wouldn't recommend it, for a couple reasons. First of all, >> devfs really >> is the best way to do what's being done (see below), and secondly (and >> more >> importantly) I don't subscribe to the engineering maxim, "If it's not >> broken, >> fix it." > > > I agree with you on that, theres much more to it than I thought, and > from your explanation way out of my league. Sounds like it could get > complicated. My system runs well for me I would hate to 'jinks' > that :-) > > >> And because enough people do dislike the new naming scheme, it >> can be changed in /etc/devfsd.conf (if you can figure out how - my >> very brief >> glance at it looked complicated). While the new names are longer, >> they also >> give more information with less ambiguity than the old names. And >> IIRC devfs >> by default does make symlinks to to all the old names. > > > I was used to the /dev/hda naming scheme and understood it, is why the > new naming kinda through me when I used the "df" command. > But your explanation of how it works makes sense to me, and I believe I > can used to it. > >> >> Well, that's my novel for today. Hope you enjoy, >> Conway S. Smith > > > I appreciate your responce thanks, Conway > -- Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs