Re: devfs vs udev, thoughts from a devfs user

Kevin P. Fleming
2004-02-10T20:13:55Z

Chris Friesen wrote:

> Don't you have to explicitly mount /dev as type devfs? How is this
> different than mounting it as tmpfs?

devfs is "single-instance": it can be mounted during initrd/initramfs
processing, then remounted after pivot_root without losing its contents

Granted, I'm sure someone can come up with a single-instance ramfs
filesystem that can be used for udev, but today it does not exist.