Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:42:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: julian@whistle.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, jehamby@lightside.com, jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question Message-ID: <199610171742.KAA05986@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1584.845530973@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Oct 17, 96 07:42:53 am
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> >personally I don't think persistance is of any importance > >but I hear the crowd yelling for their placebo's so I will do it some > >time.. but it tripples the complexity of the filesystem. > > That's not true. Layer it on top of a normal filesystem, use the > (empty) files down there to store the modes & ownerships. Say this "normal file system" is NFS mounted from an OSF box, which doesn't support greater than 16 bit major/minor numbers. One of the main benefits of a devfs that is independent of a backing store is that it removes the reliance on stable storage compatible with the OS... ie: I can netboot from OSF, but I don't have to hack up the OSF FS to support FreeBSD device nodes if I have a working devfs. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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