Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:37:58 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: devfs and udev |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:27:37PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > > >> > > What am I supposed to do, starting to use mknod again? Uggggh... > >> > > >> > Provide me with a kernel name to devfs name mapping file so that I can > >> > create a "devfs like" udev config file for people who happen to like > >> > that naming scheme. > >> > >> It seems that we have a bit of misunderstanding here. > >> > >> I just don't want to go back to /dev being actually placed on > >> real, on-disk fs. > >> > >> I won't mind if naming scheme will change as long > >> as device names start with '/dev/' and appear > >> there (semi-)automagically. That's what I call devfs. > >> If udev can do this, I am all for that. > > > > udev can do this. Is there some documentation that you read that has > > suggested otherwise? > > It's been my understanding that udev creates device nodes in a regular > filesystem. If this is the case, things like unclean reboots will > leave stale files behind. It will also not be easy to > bootstrap. Correct me if am wrong.
mount -t ramfs none /dev
That is what udev will run off of :)
Again, can you point me to any documentation that states that udev will do this on a persistant filesystem?
thanks,
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