dev-3.12-1

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:14:26 -0600, Michal Jaegermann
<michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> Running updates with a file system of tmpfs type mounted on /dev
> does not make any sense as after a reboot all changes, with an
> exception of modifications to rpm data bases, will vanish but you
> can obviously force the issue by using an '--noscripts' option to
> rpm.

my understanding is the tmpfs is being used only my initrd and not
being used for /dev/ once the real system boots up.  There are real
reasons why tmpfs is being used instead of ramfs during the initrd
phase, reasons associated with selinux issues which are still slightly
over my head.

-jef