[olug]Backup Solutions

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Tell us more about devfs?

On almost all unix systems, the nodes under /dev/ are static - to create
them mean using one of:
 * MAKEDEV (/sbin/MAKEDEV on Debian, for example)
 * mknod
 * some operating system-specific mechanism

devfs makes /dev a dynamic file system, like /proc.  Device nodes under
/dev "magically" appear and disappear, at boot time and at run time, based
on the hardware detected in your computer.

-- 

Phil


-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

For help contact olug-help at bstc.net - run by ezmlm
to unsubscribe, send mail to olug-unsubscribe at bstc.net
or `mail olug-unsubscribe at bstc.net < /dev/null`
(c)2001 OLUG http://www.olug.org

-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_