> These two are traditionally a source of real problems for devfs or > arrangements like it. I had an Irix system once where I wanted to be sure > disks attached to the external scsi connectors -- used only for a > tape drive -- couldn't be used. > > What a pain that was. Yet the internal disk slots were fully populated > and I knew what device names they'd attach as. It should have been the > easiest thing in the world to just not keep device nodes around for any > other disks. Instead, I got a day-long odessey of struggle with SGI's > udevd-like setup and its magic startup scripts... it shouldn't be that > hard. In fact, it shouldn't be hard at all!
I wonder what is the best design / implementation of devfs. I wonder if people really want a full-featured devfs like something OpenSolaris. Masao
