Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Mark Mielke <mark _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:08:40AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:27:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > And then a high-quality implementation actually ends up being 
> > _detrimental_. It's hiding problems that can still happen, they just 
> > happen rarely enough that the bugs don't get found and fixed.
> Empty talk. This is not about finding and fixing bugs.
> We know very precisely what properties the NFS protocol has.
> Now one can have a system that works as well as possible with NFS.
> And one can have a worse system.

It seems to me that as long as /dev is always a local mount (tmpfs in
the case of an NFS-root installation), it doesn't really matter. Maintaining
system-specific information on a remote machine seems dirty, and something
that shouldn't be *expected* to work. You wouldn't expect /proc to work
over NFS, would you? :-)

mark

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