Advanced Filesystem Implementor's Guide, Part 4

Trapper writes: "The fourth Advanced filesystem implementor's guide article has just been released today. It covers the significance and benefits of devfs, the device management filesystem. The series of Advanced filesystem aricles shows you how to set up new advanced filesystems under the Linux 2.4 release. Article 3 covers using the virtual memory (VM) filesystem and bind mounts, article 2 covers using ReiserFS and Linux 2.4 and articel 1 covers Journalling and ReiserFS."

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[RadioheadKid]

I have to say from using devfs for the past 6 months I like it. Its definetly nice when you type 'ls' in the /dev directory to not have the terminal fill-up three screens worth. And a dynamic system is the way it should be. But I was wondering if there is anymore more word from Linus and the linux community about what the defacto system will be. From what I last read, Linus was no longer giving out static char device numbers, but didn't accept devfs as the permanent new solution. Sounded like some hybrid of devfs is what he had in mind. Any new info??

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[Erik Hensema]

No, you're right. From the looks of things, 2.5 won't have statically allocated devices. Instead it will use a DevFS-like system. It probably won't be devfs itself, but that isn't too bad: devfs is only the first implementation of a dynamic device-filesystem and therefore tends to have some child-deseases.