Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 1999 11:45:04 -0400 | From | Alex Nicolaou <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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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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