Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:31:01 -0800 (PST) From: Douglas Ambrisko <ambrisko@tcs.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" Message-ID: <199603221731.JAA18126@cozumel.tcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199603211856.KAA24142@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 21, 96 10:56:31 am
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Rodney W. Grimes writes: | | These problems may have been corrected. I do know for certain that certain | /dev/ entries missing causes the system to hang very early in init, and you | can not even get up single user to fix it. This _needs_ fixed badly, you | should be able to | rm -r /dev | reboot | and get the system up single user, if not you have a chicken and egg | problem as to how to repair a damaged or loss /dev tree. One company I worked for, stashed a small kernel, miniroot and dev tree on the /usr partition. If you made a "mistake" on the root partition you could reboot from the the usr slice and fix the root partittion. It was an interesting idea. Doug A.
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