Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2000 07:20:22 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: new or old devfs naming scheme (Was: Re: devfs howto) |
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Sergey Kubushin writes: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Sergey Kubushin writes: > > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hello Richard, I have to agree with Sergey on the point > > > > of liking the old names over the new . But I guess I can > > > > get devfsd to create them for me can't I ? Tia, JimL > > > > > > Yes, you can. But they won't appear until devfsd is fired up. So you > > > can't mount the root fs with old name until the devfsd which happen > > > to be on the fs which you wanna mount is running... One can squeeze > > > statically linked devfsd into initrd, but with modular filesystems, > > > lvm etc. it'll be rather big one... > > > > Not quite true. Try booting with "root=/dev/sd/c0b0t0u0p1" and see > > what happens. Hint: it will work. You don't need devfsd in initrd for > > this. > > Yeah, but you DO need it to have the same in your fstab...
No. By the time you remount root rw, you should already have started devfsd.
> > > Richard, is it possible and can be agreed upon with Linus to make a > > > choice of new names vs old ones a kernel boot option? I'd be helluva > > > pleased to have such an option. Isn't is ugly to have such a horror? > > > > Yes, it's out of the question. Even if Linus would agree, I > > wouldn't. And Linus won't agree ;-) Maintaining several namespaces > > would be a nightmare. > > > > All that can be done is minor cleanups of the namespace as now > > implemented. > > It's not that important to me how are the things called exactly. All > my posts on the subject are kinda speculations and I'm with both old > and new namespaces since long ago :)) The principal concern is the > stability - it'd be helluva bad if the things are changed for a > third time... I did change a lotta apps to stick with new namespace > (no compatibility entries, ANY of them is evil) and it'd be not all > that good to restart the process...
OK, then don't whinge ;-)
> BTW, why /dev/disCs, not /dev/disKs ? :))
English spelling. Seagate spelling. Phillips (compact disC) spelling.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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