Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: devfs | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 08 Jan 1998 23:46:26 -0500 |
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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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