From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:30:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor 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 Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Now let's be conservative and assume 16KB unswappable memory > > > per task. Now we take the famous 4000 disk case. 64MB. A lot > > > but probably not deadly. But multiply this by 15 and the machine is > > > absolutely dead. > > > > Ok, then the "Enterprise Edition" of the distros that expect to handle > > 4000 disks will have to add the following patch to their version of the > > hotplug package. > > > > In the meantime, the other 99% of current Linux users will exist just > > fine :) > > Well, for a little elegance you might introduce subdirectories for each type > of hotplug event and use only them. No, that's for the individual scripts/programs to decide. For example, that's what the current hotplug scripts do, but that's not at all what the udev program wants to do. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ 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