Re: devfs

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:01:25 -0700


On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 09:06:18PM -0400, Olivier Galibert wrote:
>
> I've been wondering, imagine that in the future we have a working
> dynamic device filesystem (be it devfs, driverfs, whatever) nice
> enough that we don't want a disk-based /dev anymore. How are we
> supposed to mount it so that the kernel's open("/dev/console")
> succeeds?

initramfs might already contain a minimial /dev that has those kinds of
entries in it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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