Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:06:18 -0400 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: devfs |
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:03:42PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > devfs "mount" option is an idiotic kludge that makes _kernel_ mount > it on /dev after the root fs had been mounted. Why it had been > introduced is a great mistery, since the normal way is to have a > corresponding line in /etc/fstab and have userland mount whatever > it needs.
I've been wondering, imagine that in the future we have a working dynamic device filesystem (be it devfs, driverfs, whatever) nice enough that we don't want a disk-based /dev anymore. How are we supposed to mount it so that the kernel's open("/dev/console") succeeds?
OG.
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