Re: /dev/ files

[Zachary Wu <wxl@ccxx.net>]

Paras pradhan 写道:

> hi:
>
> it not only the matter of scsci emulation.. i dont have many files...
> like: sda, sda1, sdb etc.....it sud contain around 1600 files.. but in
> my system only 160 files inside /dev.
>
> i am confused why the files are lying inside  /dev/.static/dev  instead of /dev/
>
>
>
> Paras.
>  
For 2.6 kernel, it use the "udev" to manage the /dev dir
When system booting, udev will check your hardware and make the file in 
/dev what you really have, so you have about 160 files in /dev
When you insmod a new module, the udev also will make a new file in /dev
But in 2.4 kernel, no one will make the file dynamicly, so the /dev has 
1600 static files :)