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  • From: Craig Van Tassle <cvantassle AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /devices to /dev
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:34:54 -0500

Andrew wrote:

Kernel option bypasses this requirement... see in the kernel menuconfig
under enabling the devfs...


of course, i just figured it would be an easier transition to do it
this way then making some people recompile their kernels and editing
lilo/grub configs.


fstab needs to be updated. The following should take care of it:
cat /etc/fstab|sed 's/^\/devices/\/dev/' > /tmp/fstab; mv /tmp/fstab
/etc/fstab

I mount on both /dev [kernel automagic], and /devices [unmodded mount.sh]
and kept this against /devices ... I get to optionally disable devfs on /dev
and rescue my system if I absolutely need to... I have an alternate kernel
that is patched for custom extensions that break against devfs presence


whatever works, the idea was that we would just move back to /dev
everything iirc, so im just concerned with that.


I think that the iso's ought to change over too for all new installee's.

I might look at doing this in the iso images I create

http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss


seeing as how thats the best way to get new systems over, and since
there seemed to be a mailing list agreement [1] Id recommend it.

[1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2003-June/003483.html
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Andrew I have to agree the devfs is a good system.. However I think we still need to give the endusers the option of using devfs(d) or not. Some people just dont have that many disks, and want to keep all of there clock cycles to use them selves.





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