Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:57:55 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:09:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > - Someone accidentally removes the cable that connects a few hundred > (mounted) disks > - The cable is replaced, but - oops - to the wrong socket > - The person notices the error and now places the cable into the right > socket. > > At this time we have four concurrent hotplug events for every single > disks that we want to be finished in order and we want every disk > to end up with its original minor number in the end. If this is not > possible, the system still needs to be in a sensible state after this.
No, you want to make sure you have the same "name" after that. As any userspace apps that had a open file on the original disks are basically screwed anyway, we want a way to enable them to recover nicely.
And no, I don't want to go into the whole, remove a device and plug it back in, and userspace never noticed the difference while it held an open file handle. That's a problem I don't want to even go near right now, and is totally different from what udev is trying to do :)
thanks,
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