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SubjectRe: USB device allocation
Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> On 5 Oct 1999, david parsons wrote:
> > Thats why a union filesystem (or some unionfilesystem support in a
> > devfs) would be useful:
>
> An overmounting devfs on /dev? I think this would pretty much address all
> the remaining arguments against devfs, wouldnt it?

A design for doing this is present in the Spring name service and should
probably be looked at before special support is put only into devfs ...
if there's a need for this type of feature it should be in the kernel
itself, not hacked into one filesystem module. You can download the
paper at:

http://www.sun.com/research/techrep/1993/abstract-16.html

alex

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