Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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