Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:17:04 -0600
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> walt wrote:
> > On 01/20/2013 01:29 AM, victor romanchuk wrote:
> >> just migrated to sys-fs/udev-197 - everything went smoothly and
> >> seems to work. the only observation at this time is absence of
> >> device file /dev/root whilst both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are
> >> referring to that device node:
> >>
> >> # grep root /etc/mtab /proc/mounts
> >> /etc/mtab:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,commit=0 0 0
> >> /proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> >> /proc/mounts:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
> > I see exactly the same and didn't even notice until you mentioned
> > it. Did /dev/root really exist in the /dev/ directory in the past?
> > Can't remember.
> >
> 
> It does here:
> 
> root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/root
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 10 07:12 /dev/root -> sda6
> root@fireball / #
> 
> Since this appears to be a issue now, I'm switching to eudev.  For
> some reason, I can't mask enough to keep it as it is now.  I hope I
> don't loose my uptime. 
> 
> root@fireball / # uptime
>  18:16:17 up 120 days, 11:25,  9 users,  load average: 0.25, 0.63,
> 1.09 root@fireball / #

So you are not doing kernel updates anymore. Interesting.

Perhaps you do not realize just how much information you leaked right
there :-)


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