- - Directly after mouting the real root filesystem, wherever that
- happens, in initramfs or with a directly mounted root, /dev should get
- a tmpfs filesystem mounted, which is populated from scratch by udev.
- Created nodes or changed permissions don't survive a reboot.
+ - Early in the boot process, /dev should get a tmpfs filesystem
+ mounted, which is populated from scratch by udev. Created nodes or
+ changed permissions will not survive a reboot, which is intentional.