From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
Lista Mdk-Cooker <cooker@linux-mandrake.com>,
Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:58:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041012165809.GA11635@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416B91C4.7050905@t-online.de>
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:11:48AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> 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".
I'm not trying to imply this at all. All I'm saying is this is a distro
specific issue, not a kernel issue, so it isn't a linux-kernel topic.
> Any pointer to some code online?
Look at the gentoo init package, or read the documentation in the udev
tarball for how to do this for Red Hat. I've successfully done this on
both distros.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-12 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-10 22:08 udev: what's up with old /dev ? J.A. Magallon
2004-10-10 22:51 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-10-10 23:15 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-10 23:25 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-10-11 0:06 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-11 19:13 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-11 9:14 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11 10:29 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2004-10-11 12:02 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11 11:11 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-11 12:04 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11 20:06 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-11 20:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-11 21:28 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-12 0:19 ` Greg KH
2004-10-12 8:11 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-10-12 16:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
[not found] ` <416C26B4.6040408@t-online.de>
[not found] ` <20041012185733.GA31222@kroah.com>
[not found] ` <416C3BB6.4040200@t-online.de>
[not found] ` <20041012203022.GB32139@kroah.com>
2004-10-12 21:35 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-10-13 13:08 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-10-13 14:13 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-10-13 14:33 ` Mathieu Segaud
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2004-10-10 22:41 Michael Thonke
2004-10-11 7:19 Zack Weinberg
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