Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 23:19, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> By doing its own fstype, we could also make the auto-mount optional,
>> because you could always reach the filesystem anytime later.
>
> Killing the automount would also fix a lot of the other problems as you
> can then mount it in the initrd and dump it when you have the real fs up,
> or you can mount it privately thanks to Al Viro's magic with mount points
> and only the daemon that must make the "real" device file system need
> have it mounted and accessible.

Sounds good.

>> A different fstype has the slight inconvenience, that existing
>> userspace needs to be taught to handle it explicitly, while a tmfps is
>> already handled automatically because we use tmpfs already today. But
>> that may not be too important.
>
> Thats a good thing - it stops some of the suprise behaviour the Eric
> pointed out and objected to.

I'll give it try. Any name suggestions to throw at that thing? :)

>> Thanks a lot for your tests and analysis,
>
> And I think btw the underlying failure was in the tty layer - I just need
> to find it. It's the second report vaguely of this form so something is
> lurking in the stygian depths.

Ah, good. So that was a useful outcome of it at least. :)

Thanks,
Kay