Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) | | Date | Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:33:19 +0100 (BST) |
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> I've heard the suggestion that you use initrd to populate /dev > automagically. IMHO that is simply silly. Firstly it takes time to > create all those inodes (for devices you have). When you shut down you > should probably remove those inodes. *This* is cleaner than devfs???
Well its swappable, you can alter nodes on the fly, and it works. You are pretty much describing Solaris
> If people want to automagically populate /dev from userspace, it > requires information from the kernel (current boot logs do not provide > sufficient information). Making the boot logs spit out information for
It seems to all be there, and there are scsi tools to handle this. As a side item btw - a much more important trick to support would be "mount by uuid" you you can mount a volume by ID wherever it walks
[Note Im neither for or against devfs - its simply yet another random unapplied kernel patch]
Alan
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