Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:49:44 -0600 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: Location of shmfs; devfs automagics |
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:38:22AM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote: > > c) the whole concept of monolytic devfs is a bullshit, excusable > > only because we lack union-mounts. As soon as they are in the devfs will > > be heading out. There _is_ a point in a driver providing a tiny filesystem > > Will it now? Is that what Linus thinks, too? I'm sure he had a good > reason to include devfs. Even once we have union mounts, devfs will > still be useful.
Funny.
I remember Linus once saying union file systems should be done in user space.
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