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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 09:26:06PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:07:33PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > mount_tmpfs(8) seems to be quite stable, so I'd like to
> > start using it instead of mount_mfs(8) for "MAKEDEV -M".
> > Not all our INSTALL-like or GENERIC-like kernels include
> > "file-system TMPFS", so I'd make MAKEDEV fall back to
> > using mfs if tmpfs doesn't work.
>=20
> I don't know if it is important, but tmpfs does not provide whitespace,
> so mounting it -o union may not always work as one expects.

Note that -o union !=3D mount -t unionfs. Also, my understanding was that=
=20
unionfs created the whiteouts, so that even if tmpfs supported them, you=20
wouldn't see a difference in how /dev is handled.

Take care,

Bill

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