From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, michael.waychison@sun.com,
thockin@sun.com
Subject: Re: Announcing Trapfs: a small lookup trapping filesystem, like autofs and devfs
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:04:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041101220459.GA16765@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041101214353.GA14876@mail.shareable.org>
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:43:53PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> It would be nice if opening a non-existent file in /dev would trigger
> a hotplug/udev event - but otherwise have a perfectly normal
> tmpfs-like filesystem. IMHO that would fix udev nicely.
I've been considering creating a fs based on tmpfs that does just that
for udev, if only to keep issues like this from coming up all the time
:)
> Is trapfs suitable for that?
trapfs looks to be based on ramfs, not tmpfs, so I don't think it would
work out as well. But Adam might have a different idea.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-01 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-02 10:33 Announcing Trapfs: a small lookup trapping filesystem, like autofs and devfs Adam J. Richter
2004-11-01 21:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-01 22:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-02 15:44 ` Mike Waychison
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2004-11-02 17:17 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-02 6:50 Adam J. Richter
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