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> This is a fuckton of information compressed into a parenthetical

It's actually simpler than it looks. /dev/drivers lists the available drivers. The '#devices' are the system services outside the namespace. If you look at the output of `ns`, you'll see a list of drivers, you'll see things like drawterm providing virtual devices that get bound over /dev. If you wanted to, you could just write something that resembles a device and then mount that over your /dev. A trivial case, you can freeze time with a one-liner without even writing a 9P server:

cat /dev/time > /tmp/eternal-now && bind /tmp/eternal-now /dev/time

Cool, huh?