On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:32:02PM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> 
> They are bigger than on-disk nodes, but not so much.  You can ceratinly keep
> a bunch of them in memory, specially considering that a devfs doesn't have
> a lot of nodes; you'll only have those that you really need.

One thing that /dev does have is a lot of inodes.  What it doesn't have
is files, so no need for block allocation maps.

I also wonder whether it should be possible to pass names like
/dev/pts/<number> directly to the driver without there being an existing
declared device.

	David

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