Re: install latest debian 2.4.16 kernelimage has devfs activated, why?
Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> Would it not be better to have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=n
Why?
> Anyone know how to create devfs?
mount -t devfs - /dev
apt-get install devfsd
> cramfs: wrong magic
>
> What is cramfs?
Compressed ramdisk filesystem. Useful for initrd's. The wrong magic
message is probably from the kernel's attempt to auto-determine the
filesystem during a mount.
> Just curious to hear other people's opinions on this matter, i.e.
> don't use devfs. It seems to me the debian kernel should have
> CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=n.
Some people want devfs. Devfs can't be created as a module. Hence, the
logical choice is to build the kernel with devfs support. Nothing's
forcing you to use devfs, even if your kernel has devfs support, and the
overhead is not very much.
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