From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev causing stale device nodes
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:12:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077577949.23341.6.camel@pim> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402231420.17309.arnd@arndb.de>
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 23:35, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:20:17PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I got a report about symlinks in /udev pointing to the wrong disks.
> > It turned out that the system had crashed and during the next
> > reboot the disks were detected in a different order. The symlinks
> > were created with the disk label but pointing to the device nodes
> > from the previous boot:
>
> Why not just put /dev on a ramfs and then this problem would not even
> happen?
And you get a diskless udev-db for free with ramfs. :)
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 13:20 udev causing stale device nodes Arnd Bergmann
2004-02-23 21:05 ` Olaf Hering
2004-02-23 22:35 ` Greg KH
2004-02-23 23:12 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-02-23 23:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
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