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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplug for klibc utils
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:29:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403F4630.1000203@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402271402.06890.arnd@arndb.de>

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Several people have run into problems when attaching large disk arrays to
> a mainframe because of running /sbin/hotplug as a bash script takes far
> longer than the interval between hotplug events.
> 
> Attaching more than 300 devices at once will cause an out-of-memory
> condition and the kernel starts killing random processes.
> 
> Running only udev instead of hotplug from the kernel is fast enough.
> 
> The shell version currently does:
> 
>>DIR="/etc/hotplug.d"
>>for I in "${DIR}/$1/"*.hotplug "${DIR}/"default/*.hotplug ; do
>>        if [ -f $I ]; then test -x $I && $I $1 ; fi
>>done
>>exit 1;
> 
And so it does.

Just to double-check:
does this program also works for cases where the files in
/etc/hotplug.d/default
are scripts themselves?
Can't really see how this will help, since in that case we will have to 
start bash anyway ... but what do I know ...

Cheers,

Hannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-27 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-27 13:02 hotplug for klibc utils Arnd Bergmann
2004-02-27 13:29 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2004-02-27 13:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-02-27 14:20 ` Hannes Reinecke
2004-02-27 16:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-02-28  0:19 ` Greg KH

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