On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Ben Harris wrote:

> >With the current system, init will run MAKEDEV in an mfs filesystem
> >when bringing up the system.
>
> Ooh yes, I'd forgotten about that hack.  In that case, I don't know that I
> have any objection to making MAKEDEV utterly nonportable and lightning fast.
> I'd be inclined to leave it as a shell script, though, just so it can begin
> with something like:

The problem with that hack is that once you do it, you have to go through
gyrations to populate a non-mfs /dev. While doable, it's not
well-documented.

Take care,

Bill