Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > >>I'm guessing that the purpose of this code is to unmount devfs from /dev >>so that when the base distribution is unpacked it can populate /dev from >>the tarball. > > > Why would sysinstall need to populate /dev from the tarball? > > DES In case devfs fails to mount for some reason, it's nice to have some default nodes in /dev to help things from getting ugly. However, in the face of static majors going away, this might not be useful any more. I'm not even sure anymore if static dev nodes are included in the base distribution bits. ScottReceived on Sun Dec 14 2003 - 07:54:38 UTC
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