J Landman wrote:
> So I want to take the patch, and apply it against the 2.4.3 kernel in
> Mandrake 8.0. I read through the instructions, and no where in there is a
> mention of devfsd. Now I know RH 7.1 with the installer uses devfsd, and
> this has been a non-stop source of grief (xfs works great, VMware is
> unhappy and needs reconfiging every time, and several other things are now
> broken).
I'm assuming that you're using mdklinux-2.4.3-core-xfs-05072001.patch?
A few things. Devfs is part of the standard 2.4 kernel, and turned on
and off via the kernel config. The standard Mandrake 8.0 kernels DO
have devfs enabled. There is also a userspace daemon, devfsd, which
helps manage /dev entries. So, a standard Mandrake install does include
devfs configured & devfsd running, and our patch against their kernel
source tree won't change any of that.
However, devfs is NOT required for xfs in any way. If you are running a
devfs-enabled kernel, you can always disable it by passing
"devfs=nomount" on the lilo command line, or add it to lilo.conf as an
"append" entry. You'll have your old, standard, inode-hungry /dev just
the way you like it. :)
Of course, if you recompile your kernel, you can just turn devfs off in
theconfig.
-Eric
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