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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Virtual for /dev manager (devfsd and udev)
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 01:12:24
Message-Id: 200402012001.53942.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Virtual for /dev manager (devfsd and udev) by Peter Ruskin
1 On Sunday 01 February 2004 07:44 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
2 > OK Mike, it's working here but I had a little problem. udev makes hard
3 > disk device nodes up to /dev/hd?20 but I have nodes up to 23 on one
4 > disk. Now I've made the required nodes traditionally with mknod so all
5 > partitions mount OK, but will those nodes be remembered?
6
7 yes ... if your box shuts down properly :)
8 thats when the /dev state is saved ... it's then restored upon boot ...
9 if, however, your box crashes horribly, you'll lose your changes
10
11 > udevinfo -d still only lists up to 20, but I can find /block/hde/hde21
12 > to 23 in /dev/.udev.tdb. However, the information on owner, group and
13 > permissions seems to be missing.
14
15 mmm maybe e-mail G-K/udev peeps about it ?
16 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Virtual for /dev manager (devfsd and udev) Peter Ruskin <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com>