Subject: Re: PR 7170 -- init and /dev/console
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/30/2001 02:12:09
[ On Sunday, April 29, 2001 at 21:02:24 (-0700), Charles M. Hannum wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: PR 7170 -- init and /dev/console
>
> Okay, I might buy that, given that MFS is in the GENERIC kernel.
> Except that nobody has ever documented it.  How would a random user
> know to do this?

I don't know about "Joe Random" user, but it's really not that
un-obvious a trick either.  In fact I was going to suggest it myself as
a fall-back to the situation where no other filesystem was available to
be mounted read-write.

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