Re: about mounting /dev/pts
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:56:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 24, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> > Umm, why does you udev package mount a ramfs over /dev? The whole point
> Because this makes the package a lot more robust, as there are no risks
> of breaking the original /dev which will be available again when udev is
> disabled or purged.
> It also allows having a read only /, which apparently many people want.
Again, the point of udev is that it manages the real/original /dev.
It's really just a dynamic variant of MAKEDEV.
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