Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:13:54 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, julian@ref.tfs.com (JULIAN Elischer), scrappy@ki.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" Message-ID: <199603211313.FAA05246@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 1996 06:48:14 GMT." <14053.827390894@critter.tfs.com>
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>> >> > This assumes that the file system abstractions currently in place >> >> > change as well, since the /dev FS can't be mounted *after* the / FS >> >> > has been mounted as an inferior FS -- >> >> why not? >> >> you don't need a mounted /dev to mount root. >> >> that's done specially. >> > >> >So you don't need a mounted root to have a mounted /dev, of course! >> >> That's silly. The root filesystem is mounted long before /dev would be, > >Not that long before. /sbin/init will have to mount it to get in touch >with /dev/console, /dev/null and ... No, it will be mounted in the kernel. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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