Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carlos A. M. dos Santos <> wrote:
> I attempted this:
>
> # mkdir /dev/foo
> mkdir: /dev/foo: Operation not supported
DEVFS is a "virtual" filesystem [...]
I already knew that. :-)
> Any suggestions (besides creating it elsewhere, of course)?
That depends on the purpose. *Why* do you want to create
a subdirectory in /dev? What do you want to do with it?
I intended to use it as the mount point for a filesystem.
I think this is a quite weird idea. Why would you want another
filesystem under /dev? /dev is for devices! Maybe you want something
like /mnt or whatever, unless you are developing your own "sub-" devfs.
But, by the way, there is a (slightly) more valid reason to want to
create a directory under /dev, I recently had it. For one non-standard
third-party application I needed to create a link to existing device in
a certain subdirectory. I.e.:
/dev/subdirX/device -> /dev/deviceX
And I couldn't do that.
Or maybe link operation for devfs just needs to be taught about creating
subdirectories on demand. I don't know.
--
Andriy Gapon
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