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The beginning of the end for devfs

The beginning of the end for devfs

Posted Sep 25, 2003 23:48 UTC (Thu) by gregkh (subscriber, #8)
In reply to: The beginning of the end for devfs by ken
Parent article: The beginning of the end for devfs

udev can start up before any devices are initialized, due to initramfs. So it will be able to populate an empty /dev from boot, just like devfs can.

I don't understand your question about /sbin/init.


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