Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs
From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 19:59:19 EST
One of the things that most annoys me about udev is that I still need
a minimal static dev in order for the system to boot. Could something
like this be used as follows?
1) Boot kernel with an arg "automount_ndevfs", which automounts on /dev
2) Init scripts use console, ttyX, hda, sda, etc from ndevfs
3) Init script for udev does:
# mount -t tmpfs udev /.dev
# udevstart /.dev
# mount --move /.dev /dev
# mount -t ndevfs ndevfs /dev/.kerndev
4) Normal userspace apps use /dev
5) When udev is stopped, it can just umount /dev/.kerndev, then umount
/dev, then the basic stuff should still work.
Ideally ndevfs should support basic subdirectories and symlinks, so that
a simple /dev/pts could be mounted over top of it without any hassle.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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