Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 09:33:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: pam@polynet.lviv.ua Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: DEVFS/SLICE real life usage example Message-ID: <199808061633.JAA03421@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 14:39:31 %2B0300." <19980806143931.A19551@LP.Lviv.UA>
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> Hi everybody! > > Can somebody post a real life example of FreeBSD configuration with > DEVFS/SLICE? options SLICE options DEVFS > Can it be used to totally eliminate /dev (I mean to have empty /dev on root > filesystem)? Yes. > What does mean? (what is its purpose?): > devfs 16 16 0 100% dummy_mount DEVFS keeps an internal "master copy" of /dev, so that even if you delete nodes from /dev, they still exist (and thus could be reconstituted). It needs to mount it somewhere very early on so that the root filesystem can be mounted from it, but it doesn't want to be anyhere visible. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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