On 15 Jun 2005, you wrote in lfs.book: <snip> > > To me, the following text needs some work: > > "The ideal way to populate /dev is to mount a ramfs onto /dev, like > tmpfs, and create the devices on there during each bootup." > > I can't make heads or tails from this text. My initial reading is > that tmpfs should be somehow mounted onto /dev. This can't be right. > It seems the text is just a bunch of fluff. >
Nope, that's correct. During initial boot of the rootfs, the /dev directory contains only the necessary devices to have the kernel start the init process (console, null, etc). The bootscripts mount a tmpfs over /dev and udev then populates the tmpfs dynamically. <snip> > > I could provide more text if anyone is interested, however, the > text currently in the book could use some polishing. > How about: The recommended method of populating the /dev directory with devices is to mount a virtual filesystem (such as tmpfs) on the /dev directory, and let the devices be created dynamically as they are detected or accessed. - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
