DevFS - Linuxers

16 Nov 2002


      Hello everyone, 
    
    I was busy for a few days and had delivary to my account off for the mailing 
lists. Is there anything very major happenning on the list?
    I am using Mandrake 9.0 and something called DevFS starts everytime I boot up 
my PC. It takes approx 30 seconds of time during bootup. I realized that the 
following in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit causes it to run.
# Try to get devfsd
if [ -c /dev/.devfsd ]; then
  if [ -x /sbin/devfsd ]; then
    action "Running DevFs daemon" devfsd /dev
  else
      if ! grep -q "nodevfsd" /proc/cmdline;then
          # devfs is used but devfsd isn't installed
          quiet off
          gprintf " #### your system is currently using devfs but devfsd isn't 
availlable"
          gprintf " #### you should disable devfs (add 'devfs=nomount' to the 
paramaters"
          gprintf " #### that your bootloader gives to the kernel"
          # Let devfs being tested, but disable it on /dev
          action " Disabling devfs (was mounted on /dev)" umount /dev
    fi
  fi
fi
Can I disable it, I do not understand what it is. There is no man or any 
other info for it.
    Thanks in advance.
Bye.