Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Oct 11, 2004, at 13:11, Hacksaw wrote:

> > FC3t2 boots from an "initrd" image that, among other things, mounts a
> > tmpfs over "/dev" and creates "console", "null", "pts" and then
> > proceeds to load "init".
>
> Is that considered good? I like RedHat, but they are well known for 
> doing
> things of dubious taste.
>
> But I just dislike the whole "stopped dead because of the state of the 
> disk"
> thing. I mean, sure, if there large amounts of stuff just missing, it 
> might be
> hard to get anything done, but it sure would be nice if the kernel 
> would try
> really hard to get to a shell so I can figure out what the problem is.
>
> If the initrd gets corrupted, are we just hosed?

In some way, the answer is yes... I think the best is having a real, 
on-disk, full "/dev" hierarchy in case the INITRD gets lost or 
corrupted, which will still allow booting. Now, the INITRD can mount 
tmpfs over "/dev" and use udev to create needed device nodes.

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