Subject: Re: 'init' MAKEDEV target: why only 890 nodes?
To: None <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Tatoku Ogaito <tacha@tack.fukui-med.ac.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 07/03/2003 12:12:13
>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 21:48:17 -0500
 David Young <dyoung@pobox.com> wrote:

 > In src/etc/etc.i386/, I don't understand this comment.
 >  
 > # As of 2003-04-17, the "init" case must not create more than 890 entries.
 > init)
 > 
 > Why only 890 entries? And may I add ipl0 to this (bringing the total to
 > 855) ?

When /dev/console is not found, init creates /dev as mfs with

	(void)execl(INIT_MOUNT_MFS, "mount_mfs", "-i", "192",
                    "-s", "768", "-b", "4096", "-f", "512", "swap", "/dev",
                    NULL);

and the created mfs partition can hold only 894 inodes. 

Tacha