On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Furthermore. If devfs is not mounted, devfs should have no influence > whatsoever on the running kernel, right ?
Unfortunately devfs is a broken POS, so in 2.4 it has quite a lot.. > The problem is that i am running the powerpc kernel without any devfs > option, and not built with devfs-automount, but altough the df output > seems ok, /proc/partitions seems to show the devfs volumes. Yes, that's a known bug in 2.4 kernels, and is fixed in Linux 2.6. > Is this the correct and expected behavior ? What do other people > (popwerpc users or not) see here ? And can this be safely ignored, or > will it cause problems later with non devfs mounted kernels ? It's not correct, but expected. Better don't use devfs. (Yeah, I know the d-i folks don't get it, but fortunately I hope I won't ever have to reinstall Debian on this box :))
