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

Harald Dunkel
2004-10-12T08:15:40Z

Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't like this "my distro is better than yours".
Any pointer to some code online?

Thanx very much

Harri