From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018771385C1 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:58:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49A8621C07B; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f47.google.com (mail-bk0-f47.google.com [209.85.214.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E021E0618 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f47.google.com with SMTP id j4so2912144bkw.6 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:58:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kfEYGHJU909E6nfhmc18pgEGYDFMPJVmpPyspvcMDQM=; b=sVaT4JWwS93T+SwKUeJngb/yea2h7ijTED3dp7mxWfZ1Xq6hIprNVbSSiWpAJrWfuz 1i1L2rokCz/Fy5oYax4UAm4Iu5jNO6gWeZP2yOScs+7WbM8dPQhPEqTeH/pQFXLcszgR BU2AnwSzcYlUlDXLlZZsU0ZSOeHXRxc+hGECACjjujwsBBg+LmS+lrud2lvxgGnWzsIN uzcqutoFqiKZSlJxC+aIFpVCNNRhzDlRAC/MFG7fwR+gI5F3S41W2e7OrZh19GPZvwe9 USmEztg9WMH/HMGDb026f0218xa6fbKIT0rAQK8jJrMU5XXKsJtIKne+9Oe2moE1wV00 u+UA== X-Received: by 10.204.8.18 with SMTP id f18mr4795846bkf.82.1358762287176; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d16sm7783860bkw.2.2013.01.21.01.58.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:58:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:57:38 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers Message-ID: <20130121115738.7ee0d23a@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <50FC8900.4000907@gmail.com> References: <20130120085143.GA1059@ca.inter.net> <50FBB908.5010700@persimplex.net> <50FC8148.3040701@gmail.com> <50FC8900.4000907@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1302b82f-6b4d-40c6-b8a2-6c0f7abc16f6 X-Archives-Hash: b53a04a24ae9e123d6244fc31c043e3c On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:17:04 -0600 Dale 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 :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com