Re: what is /.udev for ?

[Olaf Conradi <oohlaf@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:57:27 +0100, GOMBAS Gabor <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:46:03PM +0100, Olaf Conradi wrote:
> > I've always found the existence of ./dev a bit weird in a directory
> > listing of /.
> > I'd rather have it in /var/lib/dev, but maybe that's just me ;)
> 
> ... which would mean that it would become unaccessible (and thus
> meaningless) as the real /var gets mounted later in the boot process.
> You cannot reliably put it under a directory that is not guaranteed to
> be on the root file system; that leaves roughly /, /etc, /bin, /lib and
> /sbin. Pick your favourite :-)

Ah, yes :)
Didn't think of that one.

 -Olaf