To devfs or not to devfs

[Dean Brissinger <brissing@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:56 AM -0500 6/26/01, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Toralf Lund wrote:
>
>  > So what you are saying is that this has been changed since 1.0? I seem to
>  > remember that this wouldn't boot at all when I first installed it, and that
>  > installing devfs via "rescue mode" resolved the problems.
>
> For XFS 1.0 / RH 7.1, we released our own version of devfsd, which was
> essentially Mandrake's patched devfsd, with some config file magic to
> try to handle /dev/mouse and /dev/cdrom transparently.
>
> In any case, mounting devfs on /dev will not be the default in 1.0.1.

	I personally have had problems keeping /dev/cdrom working but 
have been under the impression that devfs was  needed for most of the 
SGI tools to work.  Will all the other [non XFS] OSS SGI stuff work 
regardless?  I also heard a rumor that devfs was used to work around 
some problems booting from an XFS partition (much like one can't boot 
from ReiserFS).

	It all boils down to one question.  Is devfs a good thing to 
use or not?

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