Re: devtmpfs proposal

2010-02-01 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Mark Rosenstand wrote: > Also, for the people that will run an initramfs for whatever reason, > this will make it much simpler, not having to put udev in there. No, you still need udev. devtmpfs does *not* give you /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}, which are required for device name stability. devtmpf

Re: devtmpfs proposal

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 14:56 -0700, Nathan Coulson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Nathan Coulson wrote: > >> I noted that the linux kernel is working on a system called devtmpfs. > >>>From what I have read, it mount's a tmpfs, then populates it (Giving > >> us con

Re: devtmpfs proposal

2009-09-20 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Nathan Coulson wrote: >> I noted that the linux kernel is working on a system called devtmpfs. >>>From what I have read, it mount's a tmpfs, then populates it (Giving >> us console, and null, even all the device module nodes before udev >> run

Re: devtmpfs proposal

2009-09-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nathan Coulson wrote: > I noted that the linux kernel is working on a system called devtmpfs. >>From what I have read, it mount's a tmpfs, then populates it (Giving > us console, and null, even all the device module nodes before udev > runs). It is designed to allow udev to come along later, and >

devtmpfs proposal

2009-09-20 Thread Nathan Coulson
I noted that the linux kernel is working on a system called devtmpfs. >From what I have read, it mount's a tmpfs, then populates it (Giving us console, and null, even all the device module nodes before udev runs). It is designed to allow udev to come along later, and replace/update the nodes. Thi