Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
>>But does any nodes created after devfs is mounted disappear when it is
>>(unmounted and) remounted?
>>
> No. It is just like (u)mounting harddisk partition. Contents of harddisk
> is there is it mounted or not. Mounting it makes it accessible to you,
> umounting it hides it from you.
>
> Devfs is initialized on boot; if it is used (compiled in) then every
> driver that is devfs-aware creates entries there. These entries exist
> even if devfs is not mounted. Mounting it (devfs) just makes them
> visible to you.
Hmmm, if some files are in /mnt/cdrom, and you mount your CDROM drive,
then the files are hidden by the CD files. Hence, if devfs is "just
like" a harddisk partition, dev nodes you create by hand with mknod will
be hidden as well... Are you sure that they are still visible?
Gr�goire
