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DateTue, 10 Feb 2004 17:16:00 -0800
FromGreg KH <>
SubjectRe: devfs vs udev, thoughts from a devfs user
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:39:00PM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:11:36PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > devfs is "single-instance": it can be mounted during initrd/initramfs 
> > processing, then remounted after pivot_root without losing its contents
> > 
> > Granted, I'm sure someone can come up with a single-instance ramfs 
> > filesystem that can be used for udev, but today it does not exist.
> 
> mount --move olddir newdir

Doesn't work for what we want here:

	$ mkdir /tmp/a /tmp/b
	$ mount -t ramfs none /tmp/a
	$ touch /tmp/a/foo
	$ mount --move /tmp/a /tmp/b
	$ ls /tmp/b
	foo
	$ umount /tmp/a
	$ ls /tmp/b
	$ 

Hm, not nice :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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