From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:20:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:37:37AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Anyway, this works for me, on my machines, and I am very interested in > > feedback from everyone about both this concept, and the implementation > > of this. I've cced a lot of different lists, as they have all expressed > > interest in this project. > > Cool, an utterly new piece of code to play with. > Well, it has some nice issues. > > - There's a race with replugging, which you can do little about True, but this can get smaller. > - Error handling. What do you do if the invocation ends in EIO ? Which invocation? From /sbin/hotplug? > - Performance. What happens if you plug in 4000 disks at once? You crash your power supply :) Seriously, the kernel spawns 4000 instances of /sbin/hotplug just like it always does. I'm working on keeping udev from spawning anything else to keep the process cound down (right now it fork/execs for mknod, but that was just me being lazy.) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ 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