Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268172AbUIHP06 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:26:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265222AbUIHP05 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:26:57 -0400 Received: from pauli.thundrix.ch ([213.239.201.101]:33711 "EHLO pauli.thundrix.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268116AbUIHP0i (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:26:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:25:12 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Helge Hafting Cc: Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz , 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 Message-ID: <20040908152512.GA2726@thundrix.ch> References: <200408290004.i7T04DEO003646@localhost.localdomain> <20040901224513.GM31934@mail.shareable.org> <20040903082256.GA17629@kroah.com> <2f4958ff04090301326e7302c1@mail.gmail.com> <41383142.4080201@hist.no> <2f4958ff04090302141bc222e5@mail.gmail.com> <413ECC32.8070509@hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <413ECC32.8070509@hist.no> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 42 --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Salut, On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:09:06AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > >udef is a one big mistake, having need for userspace tool to use FS is > >at least silly. >=20 > Well, devfs had devfsd - a userspace tool . . . devfsd was not a requirement, it was only a tool for people who wanted their old device names for devfs devices. I was once doing a miniature environment for a package installation system which used pure devfs (i.e. no old dev names), and it was doing super well without devfs. sysinstall was the only process running, and I could install Linux on any writeable device without using devfsd. Tonnerre --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBPyRX/4bL7ovhw40RAvlnAJ9Fkrv0fPp+PIRH/e9ZDCBBhudX4wCgodJ0 Y7sxldd8kDTHKVKKX9gZEPI= =iXdQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g-- - 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/