From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 11 11:30:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA00433 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:30:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA00417 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA01397; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:29:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA01427; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:12:03 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:12:03 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting devfs on /dev References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Jan 11, 1997 12:25:53 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > I'm running RELENG_2_2 and after twiddling the sound driver to do > the Right Thing for defs (which I'll submit for review), I'd like > to try running devfs as /dev. > > Soooo, what is the current wizdom on how/when to mount it? options DEVFS_ROOT This will pass -r to init(8), which in turn causes it to mount DEVFS. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)