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