Re: disk naming proposal & devfs

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 08:26:07 +1100

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C. Scott Ananian writes:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> wrote:
>
> > Device File System (devfs) Overview
> [...]
> > Installation during the transition phase
> > ========================================
> >
> [...]
> > Simple! You can also follow this principle for chroot gaols.
>
> You might want to mention that you can also use your old-style chroot
> dev-gaols directly, if CONFIG_DEVFS_ONLY is not enabled in the kernel.
> That might make it more palatable to the skeptic.

Done. Extract appended.

Regards,

Richard....
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Also note that if you leave CONFIG_DEVFS_ONLY to 'N' (the default),
then your old-style (i.e. node-based) chroot /gaol/dev directories
which you manually created will still work.

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