On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Pong wrote:
..
> it uses devfs, shm (what's this?), tmpfs heavily (so that explains 1GB RAM
> and swap) and some new partition semantics like
> /dev/ide/host0/blahblah0.../part1 just to refer to good old /dev/hda1.

/dev/ide/blahblahblah IS devfs

it's how Sun for example does things, and is the way to go in future

shm is good old System V Shared MEmory. All 2.4 kernels now require this
mountpoint in order to use SHM



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