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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /devices to /dev
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:16:15 -0700 (PDT)

Eric Schabell said:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> I was about to mail you this week to ask if you would like to take this
> project in hand! Great!
>
> I am the mantainer of smgl section which holds the init.d spell (with
> mount*
> scripts). Make it so! Feel free to edit where needed and .cc me on the
> changes?
>
> I think it would be better to use the init.d solution as our default, if
> someone wants to have this in the kernel, more power to them but not our
> default.
>
> So in overview:
>
> 1. make the changes to init.d spell as needed.
> 2. document on wiki for those that might need it (hell, just ref this mail
> eh?)
> 3. submit to devel and post to news/mailinglists as warning that it is
> about
> to happen.
>
> Thanks much for your great initative!
>
> Eric Schabell
> Project Lead

The init.d script is for the devfsd spell, which isn't necessarily
required for devfs to work, but creates the symlinks of the old /dev
system using devfs. To have devfs working at boot we can either modify
mount[.sh] to set this up, or (better, IMHO) have everyone recompile their
kernel to say "Mount devfs at boot" under the "Filesystems" menu.

-sandalle

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