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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: devfs persistence
Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@yes.no
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>> No.  I see no particular need for DEVFS.  While it certainly moves
>> some problems around, it's a substantial break with the POLA.  (I
>> didn't always think so, but considering the vigor of this flame war,
>> it's clear that we are not even close to consensus.)

I agree.

>There are (at least) two usages of FreeBSD.  One is standard U**X type
>things, and the other is embedded controllers.  DEVFS is especially
>useful for embedded (not all NFS servers can provide device nodes, for
>example.)

Use mfs.

Bruce

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