Messages in this thread | | | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Subject | Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ? | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:04:19 +0200 |
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On Oct 11, 2004, at 13:11, Hacksaw wrote:
>> FC3t2 boots from an "initrd" image that, among other things, mounts a >> tmpfs over "/dev" and creates "console", "null", "pts" and then >> proceeds to load "init". > > Is that considered good? I like RedHat, but they are well known for > doing > things of dubious taste. > > But I just dislike the whole "stopped dead because of the state of the > disk" > thing. I mean, sure, if there large amounts of stuff just missing, it > might be > hard to get anything done, but it sure would be nice if the kernel > would try > really hard to get to a shell so I can figure out what the problem is. > > If the initrd gets corrupted, are we just hosed?
In some way, the answer is yes... I think the best is having a real, on-disk, full "/dev" hierarchy in case the INITRD gets lost or corrupted, which will still allow booting. Now, the INITRD can mount tmpfs over "/dev" and use udev to create needed device nodes.
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