Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:30:12AM +0200, Mikael Nyström wrote:
>
>   
>> I have other partitions that are mounted read-write so every file  
>> that needs to be updated regulary resides on these partitions  
>> (actually softlinks for motd/resolv.conf etc), but how about /dev?  
>> Don't I need it to be read-write?
>>     
>
> Modern answer:
>
> Remove all device nodes from it. /sbin/init will create a MFS and build
> the device nodes when you boot.
>
>   
But be careful:  current /sbin/init creates a MFS with only 1024 inodes, 
so you will probably 
have to tweak MAKEDEV or patch /sbin/init, if you want to do a "MAKEDEV 
all".
> Ancient answer:
>
> http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/#souvatzis
> http://theory.cs.uni-bonn.de/~ignatios/papers/eurobsdcon2002.sharedroot.ps
>
> 	-is
>   


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