At Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:33:45 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 22, GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Interesting. My debian box uses USB + hotplug, and it mounts usbfs > >automatically. I don't know what hotplug is actually doing, but IIRC > >usbdevfs is needed for this kind of hotplugging daemons. Is it worth > >while mounting with /etc/init.d/mountkernfs? Any Comments are > >welcome. > It's also needed by every user space USB driver.
Thanks all comments. I read, then I concern one obvious difference between usbfs and other discussed filesystems (i.e. devpts, sysfs, and tmpfs). Other filesystems is applied for all linux based system. On the other hand, usbfs is related with real hardware. If user wants to disable usbfs, then he needs to touch glibc package settings. All hardware do not have USB devices. But I also wonder why there is no usb userland programs/libraries which provide /etc/init.d/* to mount usbfs. I think it makes sense to provide mounting usbfs by /etc/init.d/ scripts, but I don't still decide whether /etc/init.d/mountkernfs is appropriate or not... Regards, -- gotom
