Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:23:41 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504191023.DAA00333@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 95 03:17:04 PDT." <199504191017.DAA00268@corbin.Root.COM>
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>>>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
^^^^^^
Yikes! ...I edited this message in too much of a hurry! ...I meant "prefer
to minimize".
>the number of levels as much as possible, while still providing some
>organization.
>
>-DG
-DG
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