> I don't see a need to mount devfs in the netboot-initrd. > /sbin/init does a conditional mount of devfs in the nfs(ch)root > just before pivot_root which seems sane. lessdisk seems to produce a sane > chroot in that /dev is populated and any non-lessdisk chroot should (in my > opinion) also have a sane /dev .
in my experience, if you do not mount /mnt/dev from the initrd, you get a message saying that it was unable to write to /dev/console.. maybe only when you chroot to /mnt... but this is necessary for some of the initrd-netboot scripts to work. upstream i plan to include the suggested configuration option "use_devfs" to disable devfs mounting, which will make it easier for others to explore alternatives to devfs. thanks for your suggestions! live well, vagrant
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