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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
cc: JULIAN Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:38:05 -0800
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>On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, JULIAN Elischer wrote:
>
>> well, not quite..
>> because init tries to open some devices before the fstab is used to mount the 
>> disks and devfs..
>> 
>> you could always alter init to directly mount /dev....
>
>	Okay, added to my list of "things to do"

   Or you could alter the kernel to directly mount /dev. Another reason I'm
pushing for this model is that I don't like the idea that the "init" program,
which may not be /sbin/init, has to know about this - we'd also have to modify
sysinstall, for example.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project