Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:20:11 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:37:37AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Anyway, this works for me, on my machines, and I am very interested in > > feedback from everyone about both this concept, and the implementation > > of this. I've cced a lot of different lists, as they have all expressed > > interest in this project. > > Cool, an utterly new piece of code to play with. > Well, it has some nice issues. > > - There's a race with replugging, which you can do little about
True, but this can get smaller.
> - Error handling. What do you do if the invocation ends in EIO ?
Which invocation? From /sbin/hotplug?
> - Performance. What happens if you plug in 4000 disks at once?
You crash your power supply :)
Seriously, the kernel spawns 4000 instances of /sbin/hotplug just like it always does. I'm working on keeping udev from spawning anything else to keep the process cound down (right now it fork/execs for mknod, but that was just me being lazy.)
thanks,
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