What is "DEVFS"?

ismark · n00b Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 40

After install finished then restart the system. The system warm me haven't turn on Kernel "DEVFS". How can I turn on "DEVFS"?

Which part I need set when "make menuconfig"?

Thanks a lot.

ColdPack · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 60 Location: Madison, WI

It's in filesystems, I believe.
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tomas · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Sweden

Remember to turn on "Prompt for development..." under "Code maturity level options," otherwise you won't see it. The option is called "Device File System"

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 5:48 pm Post subject:

Or, more precisely, "/dev filesystem support (EXPERIMENTAL)". But the idea is the same.

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masseya · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 7:58 pm Post subject:

Perhaps this is a bit esoteric, but why does gentoo need this? What does it do that's so cool?

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Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs4.html

rac · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:05 pm Post subject:

http://www.google.com/search?q=linux-kernel+devfs
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masseya · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:26 pm Post subject:

Naan Yaar, thanks for the link. It was very helpful.
rac, I had already searched google and I didn't get the point of it. There are a lot of people on both sides of the fence. Gentoo is based on speed and it seemed like a lot of the things I read said that devfs was a more bloated way of handling things that can already be handled in the kernel. I now know that devfs is much nicer from a development perspective, despite the fact that many see it as kernel bloat. Thanks for the link though. I probably should have been more specific with my question.
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Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

No problem. The link was actually from:
http://www.gentoo.org/index-articles.html
It is, for me at least, a good place to get a feel for why things are the way they are in gentoo.