From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: Michael Weiser <michael@weiser.dinsnail.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:51:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AyWmI-00004I-4y@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1vBuj-3YL-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:10:11 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> Also I very much liked the automatic creation of /dev/root by devfs
> because it kept the system bootable after moves around different
> harddrives and partitions several times where I would normally have
> forgotten to adjust fstab to the new root. I poked around sysfs and proc
> a bit but can't seem to find anything that would permit me to simlute
> that behaviour with udev. Does udev perhaps already support something
> like this?
You could do that in early user-space by reading
/proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev and setting up /dev/root from that
information.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
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[not found] <1vshj-2ou-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1vBuj-3YL-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-03 13:51 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
[not found] <fa.fkf6pbs.vk4328@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.aj3o3v7.pgqn9l@ifi.uio.no>
2004-03-10 23:01 ` [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release walt
2004-03-11 0:11 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-11 0:11 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
[not found] <fa.dbn18ei.1k46o3i@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.afjk56q.t0ulic@ifi.uio.no>
2004-03-10 13:02 ` walt
2004-03-10 13:02 ` walt
2004-03-10 21:01 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-10 21:01 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
[not found] <20040303153403.21649.81059.Mailman@linux.us.dell.com>
[not found] ` <4048D503.10808@mail.ru>
2004-03-09 8:19 ` Greg KH
2004-03-09 8:19 ` Greg KH
2004-03-09 10:16 ` rihad
2004-03-09 10:16 ` rihad
2004-03-09 13:43 ` Alex Goddard
2004-03-09 13:43 ` Alex Goddard
2004-03-10 22:52 ` Greg KH
2004-03-10 22:52 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 0:09 Greg KH
2004-03-03 0:09 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 0:25 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 0:25 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 1:16 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-03 3:09 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 9:56 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-03 9:56 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-03 12:22 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-03-03 12:22 ` Ed Tomlinson
2004-03-03 15:14 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 15:14 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 19:28 ` David Brownell
2004-03-03 19:28 ` David Brownell
2004-03-03 22:53 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-03 22:53 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-04 1:25 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 1:25 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 3:58 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-03-04 3:58 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-03-04 18:26 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 18:26 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 11:30 ` Romano Giannetti
2004-03-04 1:22 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-04 1:22 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-04 1:28 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 1:28 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 9:27 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-04 9:27 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-03 15:15 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 15:15 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 23:56 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-03 23:56 ` Michael Weiser
2004-03-04 1:19 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 1:19 ` Greg KH
2004-03-03 10:19 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-03 10:52 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-03-03 11:02 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-03 15:49 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-03-04 1:18 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-04 6:37 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-03-04 18:44 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 18:44 ` Greg KH
2004-03-05 7:22 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-03-10 22:53 ` Greg KH
2004-03-10 22:53 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 17:48 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-03-04 18:46 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 18:46 ` Greg KH
2004-03-04 18:56 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-03-09 11:51 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-03-10 2:34 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-03-10 12:29 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-03-10 12:56 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-10 12:56 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-10 22:51 ` Greg KH
2004-03-10 22:51 ` Greg KH
2004-03-10 23:17 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-10 23:17 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-11 1:21 ` Greg KH
2004-03-11 1:21 ` Greg KH
2004-03-13 9:34 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-13 9:34 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-03-11 3:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-03-11 9:22 ` "Andrey Borzenkov"
2004-03-12 23:39 ` Greg KH
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