> >
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, mdean wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A good reason to use devices on a ram disk might be for a diskless
> > > workstation since NFS does not handle updating last modified times on
> > > device special files correctly ...
Going back to the original problem: did anyone think of using mknod to
create an alternate access to the device strictly for mounting purposes?
mknod /tmp/dev-ram b 1 1
I wonder if you can unlink this entry after you've mounted it. Of course,
if your /tmp is on a read-only filesystem you would have to already have
such an entry and you certainly couldn't unmount it.
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Bob Forsman thoth@gainesville.fl.us
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