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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
To: Mirko.Klemm@t-online.de (Mirko Klemm)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request advice: how stable is devfs in 2.4.0-test9?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:51:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200010310251.VAA05375@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:45:48 +0100." <00103022454801.00908@trabant>

Mirko.Klemm@t-online.de said:
> I am currently using 2.4.0-test* as an "ordinary user" and want to try
> some  of the 2.4 specific new features out, but this is my only system
> and I don't  want it to be messed up so much, so I'd like to hear some
> comments first.

This is one of the things that user-mode Linux (http://user-mode-linux.sourcefo
rge.net) is for.  I've been shipping kernels with devfs since devfs made it 
into the mainline pool.

With UML, you can boot up a virtual machine, and play with devfs all you want 
without any chance of messing up the host.

				Jeff


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-31  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-30 21:45 request advice: how stable is devfs in 2.4.0-test9? Mirko Klemm
2000-10-30 22:38 ` Marko Kreen
2000-10-31  2:51 ` Jeff Dike [this message]

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