Messages in this thread | | | From | Gustavo Guillermo Pérez <> | Subject | Re: [OT] devfs is obsolete, but dbus/hald/ivman does not spend more resources at boot time? | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:38:31 -0500 |
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El Martes, 18 de Julio de 2006 12:59, escribió: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:11:31PM -0500, Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote: > > I was used to mount devfs in a separate folder, to search for a ZISO file > > on hard drives or DVD/CD units in my boot ram rescue disks, and Gentoo > > live DVD, in last kernel versions devfs still there but not anymore in > > config, we still able to use it, touching some files. > > > > Just to know ?How many releases will still there? > > devfs has been fully removed from the kernel for 2.6.18, but had been > disabled and really not working at all since 2.6.13, which has been for > a year now. True, but for hard drives and CD units works fine > > How do you a search for drives with hald/dbus at boot time on a ramdisk > > it is not more complex?!?!?!. > > What exactly are you trying to do? Look at /sys/block/ for all block > devices in the system. Yes there are the block devices and partitions but I'm not sure if removable=1 means CDROM... > If you want to do it in a more portable and cross-OS way, use HAL, and ask > those developers on how to do it. I guess, ok, I'll give a try to hal, and I see I can use too the /sys/block/*/dev info to make nodes, and would be the same, cause is just for probing media and looking for a big file with the system, when the system is found, dbus/hal/ivman take scene. > thanks, Thanks to you. > greg k-h
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