Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:59 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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> > Why is that? You get the same layout with a dynamic-filesystem; the > > difference is that with dynamic devices it becomes FAR easier to support > > plug'n'play devices. > > And next to impossible to handle per-device persistent data (permissions > come to mind).
This idea came across my yesterday. How about a file (text or binary) that lays in /dev (the /dev on the / partition, not a mount) or in /etc that's opened up my mount or something and sends that fd to the kernel. Kernel reads this file and uses it to keep permissions (mini filesystem w/o a data area I would assume)
How hard is this to implement? I believe other programs do this as well (smbmount comes to mind)
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