Actually I checked my mandrake 8.0 machine, and no devfsd support is
included in the kernel by default. I am glad to hear that I do not need
devfs.
Joe
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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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