Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 06:09:14PM +0000, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:18:09PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > Does this mean MAKEDEV can finally use tmpfs safely?
> 
> MAKEDEV has been using tmpfs in preference to mfs since revision 1.98 of
> MAKEDEV.tmpl, in December 2007.  I had no idea that it was unsafe, but
> then I don't often boot in a way that requires init to create /dev in a
> memory file system.

/me mumbles about old sources. So when /dev isn't popoluated, can it
please do a MAKEDEV all if tmpfs is in use?

Joerg