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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] devfs API
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:15:58 -0200
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On 12 November 2002 06:04, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:49:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > The only way I'll use devfs is
> > 	* on a separate testbox devoid of network interfaces
> > 	* with no users
> > 	* with no data - disk periodically populated from image on CD.
> >
> > And that's regardless of that cleanup - fixing the interface
> > doesn't solve the internal races, so...
>
> Hi Al,
>
> It's good that you're trying to clean up the devfs code, but...
>
> How many people are actually using devfs these days?  I don't like it
> myself, and I've had to add a fair amount of hair to fsck's
> mount-by-label/uuid code to deal with interesting cases such as
> kernels where devfs is configured, but not actually mounted (it
> changes what /proc/partitions exports).  So I'm one of those who have
> never looked all that kindly on devfs, which shouldn't come as a
> surprise to most folks.
>
> In any case, if there aren't all that many people using devfs, I can
> think of a really easy way in which we could simplify and clean up
> its API by slimming it down by 100%......

I do use it.
--
vda
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