Re: Cold plug starting services too soon

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:04, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:54:18PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 January 2006 03:45, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Hm, we might be able to mess around with this some, but why not just
> > > create a temporary file when we start udev, which the rc scripts can
> > > check?  When the initial udev startup is done (or whenever you want
> > > it), the file can be removed.  That should be a lot simpler, right?
> >
> > Yes it would, but all disks are mounted read only at this point - the
> > checking and mounting happens during sysinit. At this point we can create
> > temporary files, but udev is already active and doing its thing.
>
> In our ramfs/tmpfs?  Why can't we use that, as we know we can write
> there :)

Is there any guarantee that user has ramfs/tmpfs compiled into kernel?
If so, where would we mount? /lib/rcscripts/sysinit ?

Thanks

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Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux Developer

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