Re: readonly rootfs and /dev (was Re: /proc/misc has bad mode)

Bernd Eckenfels (ukd1@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
25 Apr 1996 21:09:58 GMT

David Monro <davidm@cs.su.oz.au> wrote:
> /dev is a symlink which points to /var/dev

on root:
/dev -> /var/dev
/boot/dev/* # important devices to boot system
/var/dev -> /boot/dev # This links gets covered after mounting /var
on /var:
/var/dev/ # full featured /dev directory

Another Solution would be a ramdisk or a ifs or a user-fs that gets mounted
over /dev in multi-user mode. And I think this is much cleaner. (Although
the Ramdisk Solution would use a few Bytes of non-swap memory :(

Greetings
Bernd

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