On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:18:54PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:12:40PM +0100, Adam Hoka wrote: > > Im wondering if it would be too hack-ish to make devfs file > > backed (at least optionally, in case of early boot or read > > only rootfs). > > > > For example: mount -t devfs /etc/devfs.db /dev
fwiw, that what I've always been assuming devfs would be doing. It needs *some* place to store the persistant state, regardless of how that is implemented. > How is that different from mounting devfs and calling mtree next? mtree won't handle renames and whiteouts; otherwise pretty close. eric
