From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 20:29:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA00256 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00234 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:29:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) id XAA09298; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:28:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:28:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... Just curious, but what is the advantage (and disadvantage, if any?) of using devfs vs "regular /dev"? My first thought would be that its memory based instead of file system based, giving better performance, but that's just a guess. Comments? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc