Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-31,: Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

# Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (root@lightside.ddns.org)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 17:02:47 +0200 (MET DST)

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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Terry L Ridder wrote:

> To quote H. Peter Arvin again:
> <Begin Quote>
> Counter question: how much kernel memory does it take to
> keep a million devices with all their info (atime, mtime,
> ctime, permissions, ownership all included!)
> <End Quote>
> Note no one from the dev_fs side has answered this question yet.

Well, maybe someone with devfs create like 500k-1M of "virtual" devices
and tell us about the performance difference.. I don't have an immediate
interest in devfs (I only handle small systems) but it'd be very
interesting to hear about this.

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