Re: devfs - why not ?

From: Matthias Andree (ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 20:50:19 EST

grendel@vip.net.pl (Marek Habersack) writes:

> So you mean like having io.sys, msdos.sys on M$ Systems in a fixed place?

No, "static" refers to "static content" - but with real file system
access and no block maps, if possible. LILO is annoying enough (which is
why I replaced it by GRUB shortly after I met with SILO on SparcLinux).

> You happen to move the file and you screwed... No, thank you. Yet another
> thing to remember when moving the partition to another disk...

Happens too often with LILO, not fixed place, but fixed file. Seems to
work with kmod as well, so it should be possible with devfs, too,
shouldn't it? 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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