From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:12:29 +0000 Subject: Re: udev causing stale device nodes Message-Id: <1077577949.23341.6.camel@pim> List-Id: References: <200402231420.17309.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200402231420.17309.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel