Re: devfs: The conclusion.

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 07:28:44 -0400

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > You sort of touched on something not really mentioned before here. If the
> > root partition is read only then /dev has to be separate, you cannot
>
> Sorry but thats not the case. The fact mingetty is broken on read only
> root file systems isnt at all a kernel problem. I've got working r/o /dev
> equipment.

Er.. if you're going to have a user space daemon creating device files,
you'll need a writeable device file directory. Then again, a ram disk
might be acceptable (for the case of a distribution which provides a
bootable cdrom which is supposed to run on arbitrary hardware).

-- 
Raul


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