On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:51, you wrote: > Just as I thought - Linux is more interested in some notion of > "cleanliness" rather than real user problems! devfs has already been > coded and is available for zSeries users who need some relief. I've > been struggling with this idiotic dev node system for 2 years on up to > 40 linux LPARS and I can tell you from hard experience that "niceness" > and what might happen in the future hasn't been the least bit of help > in dealing with several thousands devices. > Excuse the frankness but the linux solution is neither clean or easy to > use IMNSHO. > > > The net effect of this linux approach, in reality, is that all machines > should look like a PCs rather than Linux being flexible enough to > provide special solutions for special problems.
Why don't you put the question to your Linux vendor? I have heard that devfs isn't all it was hoped to be and the RH will not support it, that "something better" is coming. Unfortunately, I can't recall anything specific. Perhaps Alan can enlighten us, or tell be I've been enjoying forbidden substances. I do have the impression the SCSI world is going from bananas to worse; I hot-plugged in a Firewire drive and it came up at /dev/sda, and apparently USB cameras have been known to appear at /dev/sda too, and that sounds to me like a serious headache for the PC world. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
