From linux-kernel Thu Aug 06 09:43:52 1998 From: Richard Guenther Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 09:43:52 +0000 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=90241870215752 On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > The only useful thing of devfs is the workaround of the device drivers > kdev_t numer without have to play with userlevel code. The only people > that you replyed "use devfs to do that" was asking about how to handle > > 16SCSI disk. It's very useful here, as I tend to remount / ro sometimes. How do you handle this without devfs? Sure, you create a ramdisk, copy over /dev (of course not the full /dev, as it wouldnt fit...) and mount it over /dev. OOPS - does not work, as still some prgs has open inodes on the old /dev.... Richard. -- Richard Guenther PGP: 2E829319 - 2F 83 FC 93 E9 E4 19 E2 93 7A 32 42 45 37 23 57 WWW: http://www.anatom.uni-tuebingen.de/~richi/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html