Re: devfs vs udev, thoughts from a devfs user
From: Kevin P. Fleming
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 15:18:28 EST
Chris Friesen wrote:
Don't you have to explicitly mount /dev as type devfs? How is this
different than mounting it as tmpfs?
devfs is "single-instance": it can be mounted during initrd/initramfs
processing, then remounted after pivot_root without losing its contents
Granted, I'm sure someone can come up with a single-instance ramfs
filesystem that can be used for udev, but today it does not exist.
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