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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
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970111201203.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111122349.286A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Jan 11, 1997 12:25:53 -0500
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111122349.286A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>

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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. ;-)



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