From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262101AbTJIWTU (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:19:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262139AbTJIWTU (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:19:20 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:14097 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262101AbTJIWTQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:19:16 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: devfs and udev Date: 9 Oct 2003 22:09:33 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031007131719.27061.qmail@web40910.mail.yahoo.com> <20031007205244.GA2978@kroah.com> <20031007213758.GB3095@kroah.com> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1065737373 6829 192.168.12.62 (9 Oct 2003 22:09:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20031007213758.GB3095@kroah.com>, Greg KH wrote: | mount -t ramfs none /dev | | That is what udev will run off of :) | | Again, can you point me to any documentation that states that udev will | do this on a persistant filesystem? I'm going back to look again, but I don't recall that it won't, either. If it wants a ramfs on /dev, why doesn't it just create one? That's a question, not an argument! I had assumed it would run on a persistent f/s if present. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.