Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 09:49:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <199504191649.JAA09052@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504191017.DAA00268@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 19, 95 03:17:04 am
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> >>I personally have always prefered the flat scheme of /dev (with possible > >>exceptions for /dev/fd/*). This is a religious issue, I have spoken my > >>religion. > > > >I like it fairly flat. There certainly shouldn't be subdirectories for > >pieces of one device. > > I agree with Bruce. I would have agreed with Rod, but the simple fact is > that our /dev directory is getting very large and bloated, and this will only > get worse. Perhaps /dev/disks/* and /dev/ttys/*, etc, might be a way to > organize things (in other words, by device class). I prefer to not minimize > the number of levels as much as possible, while still providing some > organization. I vote for this one too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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