From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bambach Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:59:12 +0000 Subject: [BUG]? Udev, USB Disks and /dev special files Message-Id: <200407151459.12915.eric@cisu.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hello, First, please pardon me if this is a known problem,fixed or I am posting to the wrong list. Second please CC me as im not subscribed. I have an interesting situation. It seems /dev entries,specifically special devices are not interpreted by the kernel across UDEV mounted devices. My hardware. One IDE to USB 2.0 enclosure with an 80GB HD with kernel 2.6.7-gentoo-r8 . I have configured udev to name my device /dev/usbcage and its partitions /dev/usbcage1...etc. I am installing gentoo on this disk and was having trouble because /dev/null was neither readable nor writeable, same for other special files, random, zero, etc. Even a chmod 777 would not fix the problem. Turns out that if I unmount /dev/usbcage and mount it as its proper name /dev/sde1 then this problem disappers. Same permission, even scaled back to 666. Is this an issue with the kernel, Udev, or both? Can't the kernel interpret /dev entries across symlinks? Should I submit this as a bug to LKML? Let me know if anyone would like more info. -- -EB ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&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