While devfs provides all the "new-style" devices, the old-style device nodes are created by the devfsd daemon.

尽管devfs提供所有“新类型”的设备，但旧类型的设备节点却是由devfsd守护进程创建。

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This demonstrates an important principle that EVMS follows: it will only create device nodes for the final (not intermediate) storage objects that it finds on your system.

这说明了EVMS遵循的一个重要原则：它只为它在系统上找到的最终(而不是临时)存储对象创建设备节点。

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Not only does this mean that MAKEDEV is no longer needed (since all registered devices simply "appear" in /dev), but it means that /dev is no longer cluttered with hundreds of "dud" device nodes.

这不仅仅意味着不再需要 MAKEDEV（因为所有注册的设备都只“出现”在 /dev 中），还意味着 /dev 不再被成百个“无用的”设备节点所充斥。

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Cold-storage-device maker Sensitech attached Ember nodes to temperature gauges on refrigerated trucks.

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There are also nodes that turn the device into a flashlight and game controller -- modularity is the key here.

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The idea is to have lots of access points but make the access nodes as dumb as possible and move all processing activity to a central device.

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