> Plus, in anything other than a diskless environment, if your /dev is
> toast you can't upgrade / to r/w to fix it.

Fortunately, it's not quite that bad.

# mount_mfs -s 128 swap /mnt
# mknod /mnt/sd0a b 7 0
# mount /mnt/sd0a /

...or /tmp, or whatever, instead of /mnt.  Not perfect, but good enough
to recover from some varieties of the toasted-/dev syndrome.

And as someone else pointed out, kernfs is another possible solution,
one that doesn't require knowing the major/minor number of your rootdev
(but does, of course, require kernfs in your kernel).

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