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SubjectRe: devfs
From(Aaron M. Ucko)
Date08 Jan 1998 23:46:26 -0500
James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> writes:

> But if it isn't you can't mount /dev; for device mounts, mount needs to
> access a node. (Devfs, proc, smb, nfs, etc can be -- there is no file (or
> node) in the fs that is being mounted.)

Two obvious solutions:
(1) have a minimal set of devices in /dev, which will be shadowed by
the /dev you mount.
(2) put the device special files somewhere else, and tell the startup
stuff to look there.

--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]

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