Re: Cold plug starting services too soon

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:54:18PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 03:45, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hm, we might be able to mess around with this some, but why not just
> > create a temporary file when we start udev, which the rc scripts can
> > check?  When the initial udev startup is done (or whenever you want it),
> > the file can be removed.  That should be a lot simpler, right?
> 
> Yes it would, but all disks are mounted read only at this point - the checking 
> and mounting happens during sysinit. At this point we can create temporary 
> files, but udev is already active and doing its thing.

In our ramfs/tmpfs?  Why can't we use that, as we know we can write
there :)

thanks,

greg k-h


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid\x103432&bid#0486&dat\x121642
_______________________________________________
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