From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ei0yM-00079d-Gz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:48:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB22lmid028659; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 02:47:48 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB22k4eq013943 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 02:46:04 GMT Received: from spb42.christs.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.233.172] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1Ei0vz-0007IF-R3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:46:04 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 02:47:55 +0000 From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation Message-ID: <20051202024755.0203586d@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> References: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.8.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c690165c-4195-4c89-84d9-3278f3d7a672 X-Archives-Hash: e4a0659d457209cffd3fb78ef87df996 On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:35:23 +0100 Matthias Langer wrote: > revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in > the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i > discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true > for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. > > Is there any reason for this ? Not all systems use udev or devfs. Plus, it's nice to be able to boot the system when your dynamic /dev management fails for whatever reason. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list