From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265173AbUBJUNz (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:13:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265535AbUBJUME (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:12:04 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-253-125.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.253.125]:12526 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265620AbUBJULq (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:11:46 -0500 Message-ID: <40293AF8.1080603@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:11:36 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back to Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs vs udev, thoughts from a devfs user References: <20040210113417.GD4421@tinyvaio.nome.ca> <20040210170157.GA27421@kroah.com> <20040210171337.GK4421@tinyvaio.nome.ca> <40291A73.7050503@nortelnetworks.com> <20040210192456.GB4814@tinyvaio.nome.ca> <40293508.1040803@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <40293508.1040803@nortelnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.