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FromDenis Vlasenko <>
SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs
DateSat, 25 Jun 2005 10:37:08 +0300
On Saturday 25 June 2005 03:57, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> One of the things that most annoys me about udev is that I still need
> a minimal static dev in order for the system to boot.  Could something
> like this be used as follows?
> 
> 1)  Boot kernel with an arg "automount_ndevfs", which automounts on /dev
> 
> 2)  Init scripts use console, ttyX, hda, sda, etc from ndevfs

Even more magic piled up in kernel? Please no.

I've moved to initrd-basid start, thus I don't need anything on /dev.
My initrd mounts ramfs on /dev and populates it with bare minimum,
then udev kicks in.

With dietlibc/uclibc/busybox, initrd can get ridiculously small :)
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vda

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