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From: Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
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Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought!
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:42:28 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199504190641.XAA01137@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 18, 95 11:41:25 pm
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> > I am about ready to let people hack at devfs.
> > but one thing I'm not sure about:
> > 
> > what is a good way for the devfs to appear?
> > 
> > I personally favour something hierachical,
> > such as:
> 
> And who creates these symlinks/hardlinks?  And why do we need them?
> How much memory does all this devfs data structure take up?

I have a question:  what does the devfs file system get me, and
why would I ever want to use it?  From what I've seen so far, it just
looks like a complicated way to access my /dev/* files.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"