Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:55:34 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: Location of shmfs; devfs automagics |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > The second is that devfs seems to think it is above the normal way of > > doing things (unlike ALL OTHER filesystems, including procfs and > > shmfs) and not only will mount itself on /dev automatically, but will > > do so *by default*. This is incredibly antisocial behaviour, and has > > no justification. > > Agreed. This is why I don't build devfs when I build the MandrakeSoft > "hackkernel" package, containing the latest 2.3.x kernel and all its > features. > Perhaps devfs should mount as "/devfs", and then the user can replace the /dev folder with a symlink to devfs _after_ he has installed devfsd.
I guess the current configuration will be a major problem for upgrades.
-- Manfred
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