From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 2:34:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C3C37B423; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by relay.butya.kz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 869F928C43; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:34:16 +0700 (ALMST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.butya.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4A928703; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:34:16 +0700 (ALMST) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:34:16 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Sheldon Hearn , gjohnson@gs.verio.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs In-Reply-To: <5091.967454093@critter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Do you have devfs in /etc/fstab ? That is *not* needed, /sbin/init > >> will mount devfs on /dev automatically. > > > >Out of curiosity, what's the motivation behind this decision? Why don't > >you allow defvs to be mounted on an arbitrary mount point? > > The reason for mounting it in /sbin/init is historical and possibly > wrong but it does have the benefit that it will DTRT for people. This is necessary for proper synching of the root filesystem. To achieve this effect devfs is mounted over readonly UFS, so when the root filesystem is updated to R/W state it pulls the proper device from devfs filesystem. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message