Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:36:35 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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david parsons writes: > In article <linux.kernel.x7d8i2b5rc.fsf@metal.iinet.net.au>, > Michael O'Reilly <michael@metal.iinet.net.au> wrote: > > >As a sanity check: How many people would seriously want to run NTFS as > >root filesystem? > > I want to run a MSDOS filesystem as a root filesystem; it's a cheaper > filesystem for a floppy than ext2 is, and the kernels I build only > have support for MSDOS, iso9660, and ext2 in them. (And, even with > ext2, having a devfs (with major and minor numbers, of course; a devfs > without those is, I'm afraid, useless for me.) means I don't have to > carry around nearly as many devices in /dev for booting a install/ > recovery floppy.)
Why do you want major&minors in a devfs?
Regards,
Richard....
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