Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 26, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. udev runs after mountvirtfs, umounts /dev/pts, mounts a new /dev, >remounts /dev/pts. If you use " umount -l" it won't even matter >if /dev/pts is busy, and since there is only one instance of devpts >anyway you'll remou

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.03.24 09:52, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 24, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sounds like udev needs to run before everything else if it uses > > a ramfs as /dev .. can't you just say "if you want to use udev > > with a ram-based filesystem, run udev from initrd" ?

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 24, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Umm, why does you udev package mount a ramfs over /dev? The whole point Because this makes the package a lot more robust, as there are no risks of breaking the original /dev which will be available again when udev is disabled or purged. It

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 24, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like udev needs to run before everything else if it uses > a ramfs as /dev .. can't you just say "if you want to use udev > with a ram-based filesystem, run udev from initrd" ? I think > that's what the general idea was, anyway

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:56:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 24, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Umm, why does you udev package mount a ramfs over /dev? The whole point > Because this makes the package a lot more robust, as there are no risks > of breaking the origina

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:00:38AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I forgot a crucial detail about mounting the kernel file systems early > in the boot process: /dev/pts must be mounted after udev has mounted its > own ramfs over /dev, so we will still need two different init script > even after mount

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:00:38, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I forgot a crucial detail about mounting the kernel file systems early > in the boot process: /dev/pts must be mounted after udev has mounted its > own ramfs over /dev, so we will still need two different init script > even after mountkernfs will