Subject: Re: init creating mfs /dev automatically
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 01/06/2000 22:16:08
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, der Mouse wrote:

> > I'd probably have to use MAKEDEV - also since / will not be mounted
> > r/w it would have to do the same dance as in the current msdosfs case
> > by creating an mfs
> 
> Or, alternatively, by remounting root RW.  If kernfs is in the kernel
> and there's a directory that already exists under /, this is fairly
> easy; otherwise, it's a good deal harder (probably hard enough that
> it's not worth bothering with - there has to be a point beyond which we
> say "it's not worth trying to have init automatically patch up a system
> this far from `normal'").
> 
> I'd also hope this code would be easy to compile out, in any case.

	It is already all ifdef for MSDOSFS support, I'd just want to make
	it the default and to take effect whichever the root filesystem
	type.


		David/absolute