On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 08:38:34PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > >Alan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I see the following differences from this mtree comparison: > > > >As I said, if your only filesystem is root on raid0a and your swap > >is on sd0b/wd0b, you boot to multiuser without touching /dev > > Perhaps you are thinking of some other scenario, but I am talking > about the scenario that exists if you follow the steps in my first > message, and do not follow the steps in my second message, and use a > kernel that does not have options MAGICLINKS. In such a case, any > attempt to cd /dev or open /dev/console will fail, because /dev will > be a dangling symlink.
init should detect this (doesn't it already?) and mount a tmpfs /dev. Thor
