Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:58:24
Message-Id: 20130121115738.7ee0d23a@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers by Dale
1 On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:17:04 -0600
2 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > walt wrote:
5 > > On 01/20/2013 01:29 AM, victor romanchuk wrote:
6 > >> just migrated to sys-fs/udev-197 - everything went smoothly and
7 > >> seems to work. the only observation at this time is absence of
8 > >> device file /dev/root whilst both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are
9 > >> referring to that device node:
10 > >>
11 > >> # grep root /etc/mtab /proc/mounts
12 > >> /etc/mtab:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,commit=0 0 0
13 > >> /proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
14 > >> /proc/mounts:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
15 > > I see exactly the same and didn't even notice until you mentioned
16 > > it. Did /dev/root really exist in the /dev/ directory in the past?
17 > > Can't remember.
18 > >
19 >
20 > It does here:
21 >
22 > root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/root
23 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 10 07:12 /dev/root -> sda6
24 > root@fireball / #
25 >
26 > Since this appears to be a issue now, I'm switching to eudev. For
27 > some reason, I can't mask enough to keep it as it is now. I hope I
28 > don't loose my uptime.
29 >
30 > root@fireball / # uptime
31 > 18:16:17 up 120 days, 11:25, 9 users, load average: 0.25, 0.63,
32 > 1.09 root@fireball / #
33
34 So you are not doing kernel updates anymore. Interesting.
35
36 Perhaps you do not realize just how much information you leaked right
37 there :-)
38
39
40 --
41 Alan McKinnon
42 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>