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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