[arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 24.01.2010 21:14, schrieb AlannY:
> Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see,
> this makes big problem to some applications.

What kind of problems? I don't know of any problems.

> I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program.
> 
> This mount is not placed in /etc/fstab.

I'd like you to find any modern Linux distribution that doesn't do it
this way. Good luck with that.

> I really don't want to mount tmpfs on /dev. How to don't do it?

In short: You don't, unless you want to rewrite how Arch and its devices
work.

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