Re: /dev on Ramdisk cause panic?

William Burrow (aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca)
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:06:32 -0400 (AST)


On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, mdean wrote:

>
> A good reason to use devices on a ram disk might be for a diskless
> workstation since NFS does not handle updating last modified times on
> device special files correctly ...

In which case, one could use initrd, if one can get it to work (hear that
axe grinding?). Maybe devices will be supported in /proc one day anyway.

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