Re: devfs - why not ?

[Alan Cox]

> If I have to run a freaky userspace probe to identify where some
> block device that I need to access not as a filesystem went on this
> boot, and modify said probe to deal with the possible content of
> that block device when a new possibility pops up, I've lost.

You need to start accepting that your file system might move devices while
you are running too. Thats coming down the pipeline already.