/dev on Ramdisk cause panic?

Joshua Spoerri (josh@501.yc.yu.edu)
Sun, 23 Mar 1997 20:34:01 -0500

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tar czf /dev.tgz -C /dev .
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=32; sync
mke2fs /dev/ram; sync
mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /dev
tar xzf /dev.tgz -C /dev

quickly causes a kernel panic. why?
(it is very useful for readonly /.)

thanks,

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Joshua Spoerri
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