Hi!
Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>
> According to A. Haumer:
> > > cp -a /dev/* /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1
> > > umount /dev/ram1 > /dev/null 2>&1
> > > mount /dev/ram1 /dev -t minix -o rw > /dev/null 2>&1
> > > echo "done."
> >
> > Well, that's what I consider a real "hack". Not what *I* want to
> > have in my production systems... :-)
>
> I use it in a production system. 100% reliable.
>
Fine for you.
> > What if you want to change something in your device structure,
> > e.g. when a new device driver is loaded? You have to rebuild
> > your device ramdisk!
>
> I do the copy in /etc/init.d at each boot. The ramdisk image is
> not stored anywhere.
I do believe you this works. In Unix you can do many things in
many different ways. I didn't say it can't be done without devfs.
But with devfs it can be done in a much more elegant way. And also
faster, easier to setup, configure and maintain. That's why I keep
saying the create-ramdisk-copy-file-umount-mount thing is a hack!
- andreas
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