Re: To devfs or not to devfs

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Dean Brissinger wrote:

>         I personally have had problems keeping /dev/cdrom working but
> have been under the impression that devfs was  needed for most of the
> SGI tools to work.  Will all the other [non XFS] OSS SGI stuff work
> regardless?  I also heard a rumor that devfs was used to work around
> some problems booting from an XFS partition (much like one can't boot
> from ReiserFS).

No, devfs did mask one problem early on in the 1.0 prereleases, but it's
no longer required in any way for XFS.
 
>         It all boils down to one question.  Is devfs a good thing to
> use or not?

It can solve a lot of problems in some situations, but the migration can
be painful, and it takes up a lot of OT bandwidth on this list, so it
will probably be disabled next time around.

-Eric