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Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev"
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:31:01 -0800 (PST)
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Rodney W. Grimes writes:
| 
| These problems may have been corrected.  I do know for certain that certain
| /dev/ entries missing causes the system to hang very early in init, and you
| can not even get up single user to fix it.  This _needs_ fixed badly, you
| should be able to
| rm -r /dev
| reboot
| and get the system up single user, if not you have a chicken and egg
| problem as to how to repair a damaged or loss /dev tree.

One company I worked for, stashed a small kernel, miniroot and dev tree
on the /usr partition.  If you made a "mistake" on the root partition
you could reboot from the the usr slice and fix the root partittion.

It was an interesting idea.

Doug A.