[Yaird-devel] Yaird and empty /dev/ on root FS
Wladimir Mutel
mwg at mwg.dp.ua
Wed Dec 14 11:35:55 UTC 2005
Hi,
I have a sample Debian-unstable system and my own scripts to
install it on various hardware by cloning
(mkfs, tar c...|tar x..., set root pw, hostname,
regenerate sshd keys, etc)
After introduction of udev, my /dev stopped to be copied, as tar
in my clone scripts did not traverse mount points. So once I
created a system clone with empty /dev and then learned in
painful way that there should be at least "null" and "console"
files or else init would not start.
I think it would be useful that Yaird enforce some requirements
on initial /dev content (f.e. report about missing null,
console, whatever and offer user a way to create them). This
would improve its survivability in some situations that are
still unusual to it.
Btw, I would appreciate if you direct me to the information on
mandatory initial /dev content. May be I should just create them
in cloned filesystem by my script.
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