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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:38:05 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
Cc:        JULIAN Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" 
Message-ID:  <199603220038.QAA06885@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:13:41 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960321151257.29201F-100000@ki.net> 

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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



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