Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269430AbUICIxs (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 04:53:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269363AbUICIwc (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 04:52:32 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:45063 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269317AbUICIuH (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 04:50:07 -0400 Message-ID: <41383142.4080201@hist.no> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:54:26 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040830) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?R3J6ZWdvcnogSmHFm2tpZXdpY3o=?= CC: Greg KH , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <200408290004.i7T04DEO003646@localhost.localdomain> <20040901224513.GM31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040903082256.GA17629@kroah.com> <2f4958ff04090301326e7302c1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2f4958ff04090301326e7302c1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 896 Lines: 26 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: > >devfs was very natural, and simple solution. But to have it right, it >would have to be the only /dev filesystem. >But no, we like choices, so we have chaos. >Udev is just another thing adding to that chaos. > >Someone was numbering things that are good in BSD design, in that >thread. One of those things was going for devfs. No cheap solutions. >One fs for /dev. And it works great. > >Sorry for bit of trolling. > > Devfs was a ver good idea. The implementation of it was a problem, and after some time nobody maintained it. No surprise it had to go. Now udev+tmpfs can do the same job, and more. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/