Re: Fedora and udev

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:09:01PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:00, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 22, 2004, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> > > It seems that udev is now virtually mandatory as of the latest
> > > rawhide update.
> >
> > This is what makes it, like, mandatory:
> >
> > /etc/udev/udev.conf:
> > UDEV_INITRD="yes"
> >
> > Change it to `no' and hopefully everything will work again.  It breaks
> > more than SELinux.
> 
> Thanks for that advice.  Once I looked at that I noticed that there's an 
> option UDEV_RAMFS in the same file which must be set to "no".  I'm not sure 
> whether UDEV_RAMFS="no" would allow it to work on SE Linux with 
> UDEV_INITRD="yes" but don't have any plans to test this at the moment.

 where does that option come from?  on debian, all the options in
 0.030's config file are lower-case, and there's no udev_initrd="yes"
 or "no".

> We either need to get ramfs working in the Fedora kernels or make some changes 
> to the udev plans.
> 
> One option would be to use an ext2 file system on a ram disk for udev.  It 
> would do all the same stuff as ramfs (at a slightly higher memory cost) and 
> work perfectly with SE Linux.
 
 *whew*.

 l.


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