Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:19:47AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| * Paul 'Baloo' Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [020412 22:57]:
| > > This is probably the biggest issue; I've gotten several conflicting
| > > recommendations about devfs/devfsd. What are the advantages of going
| > > to the new devfs/devfsd?
| >
| > You get to delete /dev/* and reclaim disk space and inodes, and the
| > contents of /dev/ depend entirely on what your kernel supports and the
| > hardware that actually exists.
|
| I know others have mentioned that devfs support is still experimental,
| but there's been plenty of options in the kernel that were marked
| "experimental" and were perfectly usable. Is devfs 50% stable, 80%, 99%,
| what ??
I've been using it for several months now and really like it. I
haven't had any stability problems. In fact, it helped me to trace
down the problem with my cd drive. As I said earlier it is a module
in the ready-made 2.4 kernels. I didn't know that, but the fact that
I had no device file for it indicated that the kernel didn't know it
existed, rather than some application having trouble.
| I might be interested in trying it out. I just found this site,
| http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html. Is it the
| official devfs "home" ??
It looks like it, and Richard Gooch is the primary developer of it
from my understanding. To set it up is trivially easy! First apt-get
install devfsd. Then add "devfs=mount" to your kernel command line
when you reboot. If you don't want it, remove that argument.
HTH,
-D
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