On 21 maj 2007, at 14.35, Ingbert Meyer wrote:

> Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:30:12AM +0200, Mikael Nystr=F6m wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have other partitions that are mounted read-write so every =20
>>> file  that needs to be updated regulary resides on these =20
>>> partitions  (actually softlinks for motd/resolv.conf etc), but =20
>>> 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 =20
>> build
>> the device nodes when you boot.
>>
>>
> But be careful:  current /sbin/init creates a MFS with only 1024 =20
> inodes, so you will probably have to tweak MAKEDEV or patch /sbin/=20
> 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/=20
>> eurobsdcon2002.sharedroot.ps
>>
>> 	-is
>>
>
>

Is this applicable to NetBSD 3.0? I'm running the i386-port in =20
Parallels Desktop for development, the real machine will be running =20
the latest stable release when I'm finished.

Removing everything except MAKEDEV (correct?) and reboot results in =20
``warning: no /dev/console'', there's no more output beyond this =20
point. So, is init trying to run ``MAKEDEV all'' at this stage when =20
it realizes that there's nothing in /dev, and runs out of inodes in =20
the MFS? A ``MAKEDEV all'' on the i386 creates well over 1024 devices =20=

and files in /dev ...

Is it the best (easiest) solution to patch MAKEDEV according to my =20
needs?

Thanks for the help!

/Micke

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