Re: devfs vs udev, thoughts from a devfs user

Tomasz Torcz
2004-02-10T19:58:55Z

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:46:16PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> >I think the space savings are a pretty good reason alone. Add to that
> >the fact I think devfs would be a good idea even if it cost MORE
> >memory... You can mount a devfs on your RO root instead of needing to
> >mount a tmpfs on /dev and then run udev on that.
>
> Don't you have to explicitly mount /dev as type devfs? How is this
> different than mounting it as tmpfs?

There is one magic option in kernel config, which mounts devfs
automatically at boot.

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