On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, David Young wrote:
> > * Add "-p pax" flag, to create all device nodes at once using pax,
> >   instead of one by one using mknod.  This is much faster (speed
> >   increases of up to 20 times have been observed, but 3 to 5 times is
> >   more common).
> 
> This is great!  I cannot count how many times I've drummed my fingers
> waiting for MAKEDEV to create /dev on a slow SBC.  I must buy you a
> beer sometime.

It works only if pax supports the "-M" option, to read an mtree spec.
The crunchgen'd pax in typical install ramdisks does not support that
option.  So, depending on where and when you run MAKEDEV, you might
not benefit.

--apb (Alan Barrett)