Nick Rout is on permanent record as saying: :devfs is way cool once you start to grok it and get it set up how you :want. I'm not an expert, but setting up my gentoo system with it has :taught me a bit about setting permissions on devices and so on.
It's a neat little subsystem. I like where it's going. But I'm just learning about it at the moment (that and 100 other things). :Do you need to use an initrd. I understand that it is used to insert :modules needed for booting, eg if you want to mount a scsi device as /, :but you only have the scsi device driver as a module. It gets around :that chicken and egg scenario where your driver module is in :/lib/modules, but you cannot mount / until your driver module is loaded.... : :So is there any reason you can't compile in whatever drivers you need? It's far from critical. The only reason I'm interested in it is that I'm getting a minor error on bootup about /var not being writeable at that moment. Initrd would get around this. But it is very minor Greg --- -
