On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:13, Paul Rolland wrote: > So, obviously, /dev is on /, but the stat(2) says no. > Who is right, and where is the bug ? > > Kernel 2.4 had it right : /dev was on /, no doubt.
Some distros will mount tmpfs over /dev so that a minimal "real dev" can be provided as a fallback, but udev can add and remove nodes from /dev ad hoc during regular runtime. So I don't think there's a bug and I don't think anything is lying. If you want the dev your distro gave you, just mount your rootfs on another mount point in read-only and run tar over that instead. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
