On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 14:42 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:41:12 -0700
> Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Looking at some of the inefficiencies in bootup (in regards to the 5
>> second Fedora boot), we came across MAKEDEV. To be short - it's a pig.
>>
>> The only user of it in Fedora is udev, which uses it for entries in
>> /etc/udev/makedev.d. However, there's an already-upstream solution
>> of putting device nodes in /lib/udev/devices. Why not just use this,
>> remove MAKEDEV, simplify start_udev, and boot faster?
>
> this btw can be done in two steps;
> Step 1) Put the standard static device nodes in /lib/udev/devices
> Step 2) Once MAKEDEV no longer is used as a result, obsolete it
>
> Step 1) is obviously simple and can be done with no risk ... and will
> in practice make MAKEDEV unused and gives you the boottime gain
I switched from /lib/udev/devices to MAKEDEV!
Understood. And in answer to Chuck's followup, I think the concern is
that because /dev is going to be mounted over we'd rather store the
static entries someplace else physically outside that mountpoint.
Complaints have been filed in bugzilla, because /lib should not
contain devices.
a
# grep -r foo /lib
could do harm!
That's a validish complaint actually. Maybe a /dev_static or something
is actually called for. Otherwise fun and games with bind mounts.
selinux does not like devices in /lib also.
Personally, I don't care what the SELinux policy does or doesn't like -
it can and should be adapted to whatever is decided :)
Jon.