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 ?
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 

# UDEV OPTION:
# Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown
# and restore it on startup.  This is useful if you have a lot of
# custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about.

RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"

Do you have this set to yes in /etc/conf.d/rc ?

Regards,
Petteri