Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Which means you need about 1000000 device nodes so you can boot of any > > of the 65536 disks you could have connected? > > Why? > > The kernel currently has hardcoded logic to convert the root=... string > into a major,minor number, it doesn't use /dev for this. > > Once user space has started, it can populate /dev as required. > > Or did I miss something here?
Depending on the size of udev it might be on the initrd or not. If its not then you need a lot of /dev entries to mount the real root device and get udev started or a extra script that created node on the fly from /proc/something. Might burden the installer. Mfg Goswin
