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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Hi all,

I was just talking to a friend whom would like to start using SMGL
(currently using Gentoo, but said that he is getting frustrated) and he
asked me why we have /dev and /devices, so I explained to him that way
back when we were all Sorcerer, /dev was for applications that still
required the old device system and /devices was for the new devfs system,
without breaking the other.  He then mentioned that this method is not
needed, as `devfsd` will create the old /dev links as appropriate (i.e.
/dev/hda1 -> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1) and that we don't
need separate directories.

What shall we do?  Keep it the same, or move on to using the "new way" and
remove /devices and /dev, then use `devfsd` to create a devfs system in
/dev with the appropriate old system links?  I also have heard that
FreeBSD 5.1 now supports only devfs (no old dev links at all).

Thoughts?

-sandalle

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