Hi! Arjan: Is that possible to turn on devfs if I can take my own risk ? I know the original kernel 2.4.20 from Linus DO support devfs, although it's experimental. If I use a simple ramdisk for /dev, what's the difference between it and devfs ? It's will be safer than devfs ? 1 I thought that devfs = "ramdisk + dev package". Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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 > -- Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html and http://www.cyut.edu.tw/~ckhung/published/997nodoc.shtml ---------------------------------- Steven Shiau [Chinese Big5]蕭志榥 No. 7, R&D. Rd. VI, Science Park, Hsinchu, 30077, Taiwan. [Chinese Big5] 台灣新竹市30077科學園區研發六路七號 TEL:886-3-5776085 Ext:335, FAX:886-3-5773538 E-mail: steven@xxxxxxxxxxx; steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx
