On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:01:19PM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote: > Hi! Arjan: > Why Red Hat Linux do NOT support devfsd ? It's a security hazard and doesn't actually solve any real problems > We are developing a diskless > environment, by using devfsd it will reduce the load of the server. what does it do that a simple ramdisk for /dev doesn't do? > Could you please tell me ? For Debian, Mandrake ant other distributions, > devfs is ok with them. I know devfs disappeared since Red Hat 7.3. Actually we NEVER included devfs, only Red Hat Linux 7.1 included the userspace helper but that didn't work at all