Re: updating mtime for char/block devices?

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 20:49:05 EST


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:45:47 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger said:

> Sorry for not specifying my real problem which is preventing disk access
> when my laptop is running on battery.
>
> Can I prevent mtime updates for all device files? Mounting /dev readonly
> would certainly help, but for that to work I'd have to move /dev to a
> different filesystem, right?

Or do what Fedora Core 3 does and use 'udev' to manage a /dev on a tmpfs file system.

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