On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:58:44AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Just because something gets merged into Linus' kernel, does not > > mean that it is mandated as some 'standard'. If this were true > > we'd all be using horrors like devfs now. > Hasn't devfs been replaced by udev? Exactly. :) > > Contrary to popular opinion, sometimes, Linus gets things wrong. > I don't think Torvalds is either right or wrong in this case. > /boot and /proc seem to me equally good places to store the config file. > But that being so, I don't see the point of Fedora doing things differently. The file in /boot is just that -- a file. In /proc, however, it's actually held in kernel memory and just displayed as a file. It's not very big, but it's a relatively pointless waste of RAM _constantly_ for something looked at very rarely (in the big picture). Fedora's not really doing things "differently" -- just chosing one of several options, and it seems like a pretty sensible choice to me. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
