Russell Coker (russell(a)coker.com.au) said:
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:19, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> You will need to talk to Bill Nottingham about modifying /sbin/init to
> do this. They are not crazy about
> putting additional code into /sbin/init since it is very hard to debug.
We've done it once, we can do it again.
But why is init any better? Especially when it's just spawning a
shell script - that's a hack.
> They prefer rc.sysinit. They also do not
rc.sysinit means changing the policy for init_t, initrc_t, and maybe others.
init runs in init_t, surely?
> want to relabel the /dev file system if it is not a tmpfs,
since with
> 8000 or more files it could take a while and
> slow down the boot up.
On the slowest machine I have access to (a machine that can never run Fedora
because it doesn't meet the hardware requirements) it takes 12 seconds to run
setfiles on a fully loaded /dev. On machines that are a mere four years old
it takes about 2 seconds, I doubt that you will be able to measure the
difference that this makes on any hardware that can be purchased now. But
writing some code to check for the file system type is not too difficult.
The code's already written and there.
The reason you don't want to run it on a normal /dev is because
it's *pointless.*
Bill