[Peeweelinux-devel] read-only system

[Adi Linden]

> Adi, my experience is the same as yours and Derek's. I was working with
> a client to develop a product using a read-only cramfs file system
> on a flash cartridge. We wound up making /dev a symlink to /initrd/dev,
> and put the "real" device nodes in the dev directory of a persistent
> initrd. Rather inconvenient, but we needed the initrd anyway so not
> too bad.

Hi Dennis,

Apparently the 2.4 kernel supports a virtual device filesystem similar to
the way the /proc filesystem works. I hope to add a 2.4 kernel soon and
take advantage of that kernel feature.

Adi