Devfs usage

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Robb Bossley wrote:
> I understand that as of the 2.4 kernel, devfs is supposed to be the new way
> that the /dev directory is populated.  Is this correct?  Why the
> differences in the notation for different character devices, and should I
> manually do the mknod commands to create the old type notation devices, or
> the new notation devices?  I would like to set up a root filesystem to be
> used for a UML instance

do not bother with devfs.. use the normal static /dev for 2.4.x
devfs should be avoided cause it's being replaced with udev. udev will be 
required for 2.8
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
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printk("autofs: Out of inode numbers -- what the heck did you do??\n"); -- 
2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/fs/autofs/root.c
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