Re: [SSI-users] Raw disk devices disappear on reboot - rc4

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

Thorn Roby wrote:
> Has anyone had success with raw disk devices on rc4? After creating 
> /dev/raw, /dev/rawctl and a few nodes under /dev/raw by hand, I can use 
> the raw devices successfully. However, on reboot all disappear, 
> including the plain directory /dev/raw. Is this something to do with 
> devfs? What would be removing a directory /dev/raw on shutdown?
> For the time being I'm working around it by hardcoding the creation of 
> the devices in /etc/init.d/rawdevices, but I'm not seeing this strange 
> behavior on a Fedora RC2 machine, and I don't remember seeing it on 
> other Redhat 9 systems, so I'm wondering if it has something to do with 
> SSI.

devfs is a memory-based filesystem, so it's not surprising that /dev/raw 
disappears after reboot. I think this can be fixed by adding the right 
entries to /etc/devfsd.conf, to tell devfsd to create the raw device 
stuff during boot.

Hope this helps,

Brian