From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Erdfelt Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 07:15:21 +0000 Subject: Re: cleaning up udev nodes after crash Message-Id: <20040103021521.A30988@sventech.com> List-Id: References: <20040103060624.46377.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040103060624.46377.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 02, 2004, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:27:27PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote: > > The tip about putting udev on a tmpfs should probably go into the documentation. > > Is there any reason not to recommend always putting udev on a tmpfs? > > People who care about extended attributes of device nodes, like to keep > their /dev on a filesystem that supports them (ext2, ext3, etc.) Won't this be a problem when the kernel switches to dynamic major/minor numbers? I wouldn't want to open up /udev/dsp just to find out it's actually /udev/kmem this boot. JE ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&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