The device nodes in /dev are part of the file system, but they are not "on disk", per se. Think of them as you would named pipes.
Chris -)----- Chris Cohen wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 19:51:16 Jussi Peltola wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 08:29:11PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: >>> I'd like to move the directories that are frequently written to off of >>> the CF and into RAM so that / can be mounted read-only. >>> >>> /tmp and /var can be managed simply by modifying /etc/fstab: >>> >>> # /var.base has a template of directories to populat /var with >>> swap /var mfs -P/var.base,-s16000,async,nosuid,nodev,noatime,rw 0 0 >>> swap /tmp mfs async,nosuid,nodev,noatime,rw,-s=15000 0 0 >>> >>> It's not the same with /dev, however. I've tried a few variations, e.g. >>> >>> swap /dev mfs -P/dev.base,async,rw,-s=5000,-i=128 0 0 >>> >>> but none allow the system to finish booting. >>> >>> What are the good ways to do work with /dev in RAM ? >> What writes in /dev? Isn't it just device nodes? > > Openssh needs to write to some devices. (Don't know which ones..) > -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
