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On Monday 11 July 2005 03:47 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:34 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> > >>>I.o.w. is it still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a |
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> > >>>default or can we move to a pure udev system and change the default to |
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> > >>>"no". |
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> > >> |
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> > >>I've been running my boxes successfully with "no" since the option |
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> > >>showed up just fine :) |
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> > > |
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> > >I think people is under a misconception about this option and ... you |
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> > >really only need to enable this for a driver that is not sysfs aware |
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> > >(nvidia comes to mind - any others?), or if you have some custom nodes |
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> > >in /dev that you cannot do via udev ... And I am pretty sure (correct |
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> > >me if I am wrong) that all (or most?) in-kernel drivers are sysfs aware, |
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> > >and only a handful outside are not. |
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> > |
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> > Well, I do have a small issue with the software RAID (md) driver, in |
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> > that when autodetection is not performed by the driver (due to either |
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> > being a module or booting the system through an initramfs), no sysfs |
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> > entries or device nodes are created. |
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> > |
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> > Normally my RAID system is brought up inside my initramfs with static |
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> > nodes, so this really only affects my recovery CD, where I need to run: |
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> > |
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> > for d in 0 1 2 3; do |
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> > /sbin/mdadm --assemble --config=partitions --auto=md |
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> > --super-minor=$d /dev/md$d >/dev/null 2>&1 |
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> > done |
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> > |
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> > Maybe something similar will be required in /sbin/rc, like you currently |
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> > do for LVM and the device mapper? It isn't a critical problem |
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> > though...I am pretty sure there are only a few Gentoo users who will |
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> > ever see this...maybe as few as 1!!! |
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> Mike, what do you think? This viable? We could maybe add an init addon |
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> for md, and move the lvm/whatever stuff to that as well? |
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i dont see the point ... ive already fixed raidtools / mdadm to generate |
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device nodes before running since udev doesnt do it correctly/at all |
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-mike |
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