Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:06:06 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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H. Peter Anvin writes: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > 1) you can also symlink devfs. > > 2) devfs still has permissions. > > Yes, and they go away every time, completely nullifying the utility. > In short, YES YOU CAN DO IT. It's no longer a clean solution, but > nothing but a gross hack.
It's completely untrue that persistence for devfs is a gross hack. It is true that the current user space scheme (using tar) is a hack. And I've had plans right from the start to address that. But that is a user space issue and shouldn't be held against devfs.
With devfsd, I have a very nice way of implementing persistence. I can support the existing semantics, where a sysadmin goes in and manually changes things, and I already support a more powerful scheme where groups of device entries are "saved".
Regards,
Richard....
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