Leann, thanks for the reply on my bug that's a dup of this.  I thought
I'd already posted my workaround, but it turns out I only posted it on
bug 253786 (/dev/.static/dev is left read-only).  Since I found a
workaround, this bug hasn't caused me any problems.

Anyway, you can convince the init scripts to remount the bind mount read-write 
as well as the main root filesystem with this in fstab
/dev            /dev/.static/dev bind   remount,rw      0 0

 That avoids triggering the bug with XFS root filesystems.  And it makes
/dev/.static/dev read-write, so MAKEDEV works, so I'll be keeping this
in my fstab even after the XFS bug is fixed.  see bug 253786 for more
discussion on ro/rw, and how it gets that way in the first place.

 If you don't want to break the kernel freeze, you could possibly add
this workaround to update-manager's collection of quirks.  (e.g. test if
xfs_info / shows that the root filesystem is xfs, then append a line to
/etc/fstab.)

 Hmm, reading the fix description, XFS has a per-FS read-only flag?
That doesn't sound like it would interact well with various combinations
of read-only and read-write bind mounts...  Could be a security hole if
you think you have a ro bind mount for a chroot, but some FS ops are
allowed.  I'll test this and report a bug if I remember and have time,
and it's not already known.

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8.10 intrepid alpha 6 - root file system mounted read only (XFS) 
with2.6.27-4-generic 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273601
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