From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266129AbTLIQWr (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:22:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266139AbTLIQWr (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:22:47 -0500 Received: from mail2-116.ewetel.de ([212.6.122.116]:4481 "EHLO mail2.ewetel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266129AbTLIQWq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:22:46 -0500 To: Holger Schurig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: State of devfs in 2.6? In-Reply-To: <10N8i-7bE-1@gated-at.bofh.it> References: <10vOq-7mK-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <10vON-7mK-29@gated-at.bofh.it> <10CGd-1SM-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <10DiJ-2Qj-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <10Kas-8kr-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <10Kka-dD-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <10LJg-3zb-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <10LT5-3Wo-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <10N8i-7bE-1@gated-at.bofh.it> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:22:36 +0100 Message-Id: From: Pascal Schmidt X-CheckCompat: OK Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:20:06 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel: > # find /dev | wc -l > 326 40k on ext2 (128 byte inodes). I'm betting devfs is more than 40k of code. Plus devfs uses more memory than a filesystem-backed /dev, don't you think? -- Ciao, Pascal