Marcin Jessa --> current-users (2005-06-30 17:07:02 +0200):
> Hi.
> 
> I dont know if it's a bug but when I manually create console device in empty /dev on a drive with mknod console c 0 0 then boot that drive, init does not create any new devices in /dev. I did not test it creating any other devices.
> Kernel version 3.99.6.

This is not a bug. Read src/sbin/init/init.c:

static int
mfs_dev(void)
{
[...]
        /* If we have /dev/console, assume all is OK  */
        if (access(_PATH_CONSOLE, F_OK) != -1)
                return(0);

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