From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: [[Patch mdadm] 2/5] Move the files mdmon opens into /dev/ to support handoff after pivotroot Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:32:29 -0500 Message-ID: <4B673A5D.2010901@tmr.com> References: <1263242294-5353-1-git-send-email-dledford@redhat.com> <1263242294-5353-3-git-send-email-dledford@redhat.com> <20100119110930.107ca42e@notabene> <4B55F138.7060008@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B55F138.7060008@redhat.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Doug Ledford wrote: > On 01/18/2010 05:09 PM, Neil Brown wrote: > > >> I understand there is a problem here, but I don't like this approach to a >> solution. I'll give it more though when I get home from LCA2010 and see >> what I can come up with. >> > > Feel free to come up with something different. But, if your solution > involves maintaining an additional read/write mount area in deference to > a long dead unix tradition, I'm just going to shake my head and patch > your solution away to something sane. > > I don't understand you argument here. Not the one where you say you're going to ignore Neil and do what you want because you can, I understand that, but the "additional read/write mount area" part, isn't /var/run r/w on all systems now? Could you clarify why this is "additional" here? -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein