Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Helge Hafting
2004-09-03T08:54:26Z

Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:

>
>devfs was very natural, and simple solution. But to have it right, it
>would have to be the only /dev filesystem.
>But no, we like choices, so we have chaos.
>Udev is just another thing adding to that chaos.
>
>Someone was numbering things that are good in BSD design, in that
>thread. One of those things was going for devfs. No cheap solutions.
>One fs for /dev. And it works great.
>
>Sorry for bit of trolling.
>
>
Devfs was a ver good idea. The implementation of it
was a problem, and after some time nobody maintained it.
No surprise it had to go. Now udev+tmpfs can do the same
job, and more.

Helge Hafting