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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release
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On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:10:11 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> Also I very much liked the automatic creation of /dev/root by devfs
> because it kept the system bootable after moves around different
> harddrives and partitions several times where I would normally have
> forgotten to adjust fstab to the new root. I poked around sysfs and proc
> a bit but can't seem to find anything that would permit me to simlute
> that behaviour with udev. Does udev perhaps already support something
> like this?

You could do that in early user-space by reading
/proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev and setting up /dev/root from that
information.

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Ciao,
Pascal
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