On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:57:22 -0500 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:20:45AM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > > Now back to my original question, has anyone else chucked this thing > > in the trash where it belongs and gone back to devfs, and what > > problems or issues need to be watched out for. > > I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "back to devfs", because Fedora > Core and before that Red Hat Linux never used devfs, and to my > knowledge, devfs never was working perfectly (and was always marked as > "experimental"). > > udev/hotplug may have some growing pains. However, by switching to > devfs, you'd be moving away from something that's at under very active > development to obsolete, unmaintained code due to be completely > removed from the kernel. That's the main thing I'd suggest watching > out for. :) I think Mandrake used devfs for awhile, but all the recent Linux distros that I know of have dumped it. A pity - I actually liked it. devfs is currently used in FreeBSD. I'm not sure if the FBSD developers worked all the bugs out, but it seems to be stable. However, I wouldn't recommend switching to FBSD just for devfs (FBSD has a lot of other issues). cheers, Robert
