Question about linux sound... 1026

On Sunday 09 April 2006 06:19, iforone stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

Well,udevis the default virtual device filesystem in the 2.6-generation of kernels - albeit that Mandrake-Mandriva 10.0 came with a 2.6.3 kernel anddevfs- but up to 2.6.12 - I think - there still was support fordevfsin the kernel.

Of course, it *is* entirely possible to run without eitherdevfsorudev,provided that your distribution has created the necessary device nodes in the *-dev* on the root filesystem itself, or that you know how to do this yourself. ;-)

For the brave...:

man mknod

;-)

Naturally, there are two scenarios for which using a static on-disk *-dev* rather thanudevordevfswould be troublesome...: (1) You would lose all plug & play functionality as supplied byudev-devfswas by far inferior in that respect; and (2) It would be impossible to mount the root filesystem read-only on systems that require it without that you'd create a separate on-disk filesystem for *-dev* - to be mounted from within *-etc-fstab* - while hereby having at least a few necessary device nodes in the *-dev* directory on the root filesystem itself, i.e. *-dev-console* and *-dev-null.*

The bottom line however is that up until 2.6.12 - again: I *think;* it could also be 2.6.13 - one could still make use ofdevfsif one wishes so.

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)