Changeset 8446a0b

Timestamp:

06/27/2005 11:17:32 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Archaic <archaic@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

06d3024

Parents:

4bcbf29

Message:

Switched from mounting /dev on a ramfs to a tmpfs.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6208 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/devices.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• chapter06/kernfs.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter07/udev.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -92 +92 @@
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>June 27th, 2005 [archaic]: Switched from mounting /dev on a
+ramfs to a tmpfs.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>June 27th, 2005 [archaic]: Filled in text for errata page.
 Thanks for the text, Steve!</para></listitem>

chapter06/devices.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
 
 <sect2>
-<title>Mounting ramfs and Populating /dev</title>
+<title>Mounting tmpfs and Populating /dev</title>
 
 <para>The recommended method of populating the <filename
 class="directory">/dev</filename> directory with devices is to mount a virtual
-filesystem (such as <systemitem class="filesystem">ramfs</systemitem> or
-<systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem>) on the <filename
-class="directory">/dev</filename> directory, and allow the devices to be created
-dynamically on that virtual filesystem as they are detected or accessed. This is
-generally done during the boot process. Since this new system has not been
-booted, it is necessary to do what the bootscripts would otherwise do by
-mounting <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>:</para>
+filesystem (such as <systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem>) on the
+<filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory, and allow the devices to
+be created dynamically on that virtual filesystem as they are detected or
+accessed. This is generally done during the boot process. Since this new system
+has not been booted, it is necessary to do what the bootscripts would otherwise
+do by mounting <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mount -n -t ramfs none /dev</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>mount -n -t tmpfs none /dev</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>The Udev package is what actually creates the devices in the <filename
@@ -52 +51 @@
 <!-- -->
 
-<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are
-not created by Udev, so create those here:</para>
+<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are created
+during boot by the bootscripts. Since this is a chroot environment and not a
+booted environment, those symlinks and directories need to be created
+here:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd

chapter06/kernfs.xml

@@ -30 +30 @@
 mount</quote> for each of these now:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mount -f -t ramfs ramfs $LFS/dev
+<screen><userinput>mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/dev
 mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs $LFS/dev/shm
 mount -f -t devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 devpts $LFS/dev/pts</userinput></screen>

chapter07/udev.xml

@@ -28 +28 @@
 get device nodes created for them. Because these device nodes will be
 created each time the system boots, they will be stored on a
-<systemitem class="filesystem">ramfs</systemitem> (a file system that
+<systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem> (a file system that
 resides entirely in memory and does not take up any disk space).
 Device nodes do not require much disk space, so the memory that is