Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2004-09-03T09:14:51Z

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:54:26 +0200, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no> wrote:
> 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.

udef is a one big mistake, having need for userspace tool to use FS is
at least silly.
I can understeand need for some things in kernel to have userspace
daemon. But FS is out of question the least one.

I am supprised noone wanted to maintain devfs. Maybe because people
didn't want to go to devfs only. But still to have classic /dev. It's
also silly, because person writing driver needs to choose between, or
implement all. That's more than bad. Once I have loads of time, and no
work in KDE, I can take over devfs happily :-)

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GJ