From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 13:25:22 +0000 Subject: Re: udev_db must be in a ramfs Message-Id: <200403061425.23300.arnd@arndb.de> 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 Friday 05 March 2004 01:11, Ken Brush wrote: > So, I tried another place /foo. > Same thing > > Until I placed a mount -t ramfs none /foo entry in the udev startup script. > > So, thinking about it now. /tmp could've been a problem with the db being > lost when /tmp is mounted (i.e. it was created and then a mount over the > top of it.) Note that you have to use ramfs for udev_root anyway if you want udev to work properly, so the database by default ends up in the correct place as long as udev_db points to a file below udev_root. Arnd <>< ------------------------------------------------------- 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