From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:04:30 +0000 Subject: Re: udev_db must be in a ramfs Message-Id: <1078445069.1760.16.camel@pim> List-Id: References: <32794.65.172.181.6.1078443718.squirrel@secure.cgi101.com> In-Reply-To: <32794.65.172.181.6.1078443718.squirrel@secure.cgi101.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 00:41, Ken Brush wrote: > So, I ran a few tests on location of the tdb database (config file: > udev_db variable). And was only able to put in a ramfs location for it. > > So my main question is: Is this a bug or a feature? If it's a feature, > I'll just submit a patch for the documentation to prevent people from > trying to put it on a non-ramfs area. If it's a bug, then I would work on > fixing it. :) No, it's neither a bug nor a feature. :) I'm able to place the db wherever I want on the filesystem. udev doesn't know anything about ramfs, it works on any filesytem. What is your problem exactly? thanks, Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&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