Re: devfs vs udev, thoughts from a devfs user

[Kevin P. Fleming]

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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