On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:18:54 +0100 Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> 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 > > How is that different from mounting devfs and calling mtree next? Atomicity (or at least on-line updates to the database). This could also enable you to do mount -t devfs /etc/devfs-bindchroot.db /var/chroot/bind/dev for example. So you can have different permissions at a different location. -- NetBSD - Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability
