devFS?

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai asmodai at wxs.nl
Mon Dec 8 23:12:23 PST 2003


-On [20031209 00:32], evs (erik14 at xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>Will DragonFly eventually use a devFS so we don't need eleven-hundred
>entries in the /dev directory where most are unused?

I think we will, however, the /dev directory is only 70K on most systems
and in general isn't much of an hindrance, except when you need to
create new device nodes.  Again, the timeline and wish to add this is up
to Matt.  Probably another one of the projects which is nice to have in
the long run.

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