Re: udev and devfs - The final word

Andries Brouwer
2004-01-03T23:08:47Z

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:27:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Sure. It is not "need". It is "quality of implementation".
> > Consider NFS.

> And then a high-quality implementation actually ends up being
> _detrimental_. It's hiding problems that can still happen, they just
> happen rarely enough that the bugs don't get found and fixed.

Empty talk. This is not about finding and fixing bugs.
We know very precisely what properties the NFS protocol has.
Now one can have a system that works as well as possible with NFS.
And one can have a worse system.

Andries