Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ?

Greg KH
2004-10-12T00:32:19Z

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 10:08:49PM +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I have just remembered that udev mounts /dev as a tmpfs filesystem, _on top_
> of the old /dev directory.

Well, that's the way _your_ distro does it. Mine has an empty /dev on
the root filesystem, and the init scripts create a ramfs on top of /dev
at boot time, which udev fills up.

thanks,

greg k-h