From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minimal static dev entries?
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:54:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050516185438.GB10322@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4286C122.5050106@ipom.com>
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:25:22PM -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> As I moved my data from one disk to another (well actually from a disk
> to an md device) I used cp -ax which stays ona given filesystem, and
> thus I never get static /dev entries on my new root device.
>
> The only things that seem to be needed by the static boot prior to udev
> being started (i.e the only things to cause error) were /dev/console and
> /dev/null. So I made these two and the system now boots fine and udev
> gets started and in /dev/.static/dev I have console, null, and a named
> pipe called initctl.
>
> So my question is... is there anything else that _should_ be in the
> static dev filesystem that's needed until udev get's started? udev is
> started extraordinarily early in the boot process, so I don't suspect
> so, but I thought I'd ask those who know best.
It all depends on your distro and its startup logic. Some don't need
any static nodes :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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2005-05-15 3:25 Minimal static dev entries? Phil Dibowitz
2005-05-15 3:31 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2005-05-16 18:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
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