From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264506AbUADBzR (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:55:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264586AbUADBzQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:55:16 -0500 Received: from h80ad2533.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.51]:23432 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264506AbUADBzJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:55:09 -0500 Message-Id: <200401040154.i041saXG029539@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Mark Mielke Cc: Andries Brouwer , Linus Torvalds , Rob Love , rob@landley.net, Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:16:26 EST." <20040104011626.GB6398@mark.mielke.cc> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200401010634.28559.rob@landley.net> <1072970573.3975.3.camel@fur> <20040101164831.A2431@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <1072972440.3975.29.camel@fur> <20040103040013.A3100@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040103141029.B3393@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040104000840.A3625@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20040104011626.GB6398@mark.mielke.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-398179944P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:54:36 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_-398179944P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:16:26 EST, Mark Mielke said: > 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? :-) ISTR that SunOS 4.0 handled an NFS-mounted /dev and swap just fine some 15 years ago? (in fact, due to performance differences between the disks on a Sun3/ 2xx server and the shoebox disk on a 3/50, you could page faster over the net than to a local /dev/swap). So it's more a case of "we have decided to do it differently" than "that's so nuts that it shouldn't be expected to work".... --==_Exmh_-398179944P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/93JccC3lWbTT17ARAmBjAJ9dJT99WXTBFFlEJ4m+9hs5S2+Q2gCgzQEF j+dfxHu7GjY96BhceaufmEI= =wv2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-398179944P--