* Andrew Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi All, > I was wondering if anyone out there has an oppinion on devfs. I'm > considering it for a system that I'm building and some real life > experiences with it would be helpful. > > One of the topics that I'm researching is the fact that it's marked as > experimental in the source. The howto makes it seem as though it's > stable. Any thoughts on this? > > Also the system that I'm considering it for may have a lot of devices or > it may have very few. This situation seems like one in which > dynamically growing the /dev filesystem makes a lot of sence. > > Any comments, rants, flames, etc. . . would be greatly appreciated.
I've switched to devfs at 2.4.2 and so far I had no problems. RTF /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README, install devfsd, add "devfs=mount" to append line in lilo.conf and you're all set. Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key Well, lusers are technically human. -- Red Drag Diva in asr
