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Re: use udev (was Re: Max number of ide disk atteched)



On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:48:43PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:18:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <dman@dman13.dyndns.org> writes:
> | 
> | > The thing with udev is it is all userspace, therefore it works with
> | > any 2.6 kernel (that has SYSFS in it).  You can upgrade udev without
> | > touching your kernel, unlike devfs.  I've been using udev for a few
> | > weeks now (since 0.18 arrived in "experimental") and I haven't had
> | > any major problems (only a hurdle or two).
> | 
> | OK.  So how does it work?  You've got my interest piqued.  Does it
> | work kinda like devfs, or does it maintain the devices nodes on disk?
> 
> Have you booted with a 2.6 kernel yet?  If so, take a look in /sys.

Is this automatic with Debian kernel packages? With a DIY 2.6 I had to
create /sys and mount it by hand (the /etc/fstab entry is as for /proc
but s/proc/sys/g).

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