Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

One of the things that most annoys me about udev is that I still need
a minimal static dev in order for the system to boot.  Could something
like this be used as follows?

1)  Boot kernel with an arg "automount_ndevfs", which automounts on /dev

2)  Init scripts use console, ttyX, hda, sda, etc from ndevfs

3)  Init script for udev does:
# mount -t tmpfs udev /.dev
# udevstart /.dev
# mount --move /.dev /dev
# mount -t ndevfs ndevfs /dev/.kerndev

4)  Normal userspace apps use /dev

5)  When udev is stopped, it can just umount /dev/.kerndev, then umount
/dev, then the basic stuff should still work.

Ideally ndevfs should support basic subdirectories and symlinks, so that
a simple /dev/pts could be mounted over top of it without any hassle.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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