Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:28:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960319232652.255B-100000@ki.net>
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Hi... Just curious, but what is the advantage (and disadvantage, if any?) of using devfs vs "regular /dev"? My first thought would be that its memory based instead of file system based, giving better performance, but that's just a guess. Comments? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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