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Re: required DEVs...



On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Doron Zifrony wrote:

> > 
> > On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Ze'ev Maor wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > What are the REALLY essential devices I should have on a root fs floppy
> > > (assuming I want to save space), i.e. fd0,hda, a couple of ttys etc...
> > > (I'll need support for plip as well)...
> >
> > ha! save space :-)))
> > 
> > devices plug into the kernel, they don't take up space...
> > 
> 
> That is not entirely correct.  At least not on other Unix systems.
> Only the device drivers you define in the kernel are being linked into it,
> and thereforethe less devices you define, the less disk space will your
> kernel take.

I don't think he meant "what to compile into the kernel" but "what to keep
in /dev"

the most a /dev "file" will occupy is a single inode.


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