special devices support

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery@ece.cmu.edu
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:03:07 -0500


On Friday, February 16, 2001 16:39:48 -0800, Patty OReilly 
<oreilly@qualcomm.com> wrote:
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| Is is possible to create special devices in AFS space?
| This is need for chroot'd environments.
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No.  You can mount a tmpfs/ramfs/md/whatever memory or swap-based fs your 
OS offers over an AFS directory, though, and put your files there.

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