> 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.

Well, I don't know about FreeBSD.  But NetBSD traditionally has MAKEDEV
in /dev, and while it might go away in a devfs world, I think it would
be a bad idea - I'd even go so far as to call it broken - to make it
impossible to have plain files in /dev.

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