From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 19 03:17:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA14686 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:17:12 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA14679 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:17:10 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id DAA28714; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:17:06 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id DAA00268; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:17:06 -0700 Message-Id: <199504191017.DAA00268@corbin.Root.COM> To: Bruce Evans cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 95 18:30:55 +1000." <199504190830.SAA28041@godzilla.zeta.org.au> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:17:04 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>I personally have always prefered the flat scheme of /dev (with possible >>exceptions for /dev/fd/*). This is a religious issue, I have spoken my >>religion. > >I like it fairly flat. There certainly shouldn't be subdirectories for >pieces of one device. I agree with Bruce. I would have agreed with Rod, but the simple fact is that our /dev directory is getting very large and bloated, and this will only get worse. Perhaps /dev/disks/* and /dev/ttys/*, etc, might be a way to organize things (in other words, by device class). I prefer to not minimize the number of levels as much as possible, while still providing some organization. -DG