devfs

Matt Patterson matt at v8zman.com
Tue Apr 26 19:16:24 UTC 2005


ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:43 -0400, Matt Patterson wrote:
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>>I have been having stability issues with my dual athlon system, so I 
>>have started compiling my own kernels. I built a 2.6.10 kernel which 
>>appears stable, and the only problem I can see is that on bootup it 
>>gives an error about devfs not being supported by kernel. Do I lose 
>>anything by not enabling this feature???
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Matt
>>
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>No.  "devfs" was a hack to start with, and it's disadvantages  are
>greater than it's advantages.  And, the last and most important thing,
>"udev" is much better alternative (actually, "udev" is more than *just*
>an alternative).
>
>Ziyad.
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Why am I seeing an error message at boot then? Does ubuntu use devfs by 
default?

Matt






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