Hi Anto, I push code to both github and git.devuan.org. Either one works :)
Thanks, -Jude On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Anto <arya...@chello.at> wrote: > On 17/04/15 06:00, Jude Nelson wrote: > >> Hi Anto, >> >> I just committed preliminary support for using vdevd with devtmpfs. >> vdevd should automatically detect whether or not devtmpfs is mounted on >> /dev, and nevertheless run device setup scripts (by using its own device >> metadata tree in /dev/vdev/ to see whether or not the device was actually >> processed). >> >> NB for developers: this problem isn't specific to Linux--I expect to >> encounter it with FreeBSD as well, since it has a full-blown in-kernel >> devfs. vdevd will keep track of "OS quirks" in the future--one of which is >> the "Device Already Exists" quirk, whereby vdevd simply expects the OS to >> provide the device file (regardless of the mechanism). The Linux-specific >> vdevd back-end now checks to see if vdevd will create files on a devtmpfs >> filesystem, and enables that quirk if so. >> >> Funny, undocumented (!!) discovery: the devtmpfs filesystem type (see >> statfs(2)) is the same (!!) as the tmpfs filesystem type, despite being a >> fundamentally different filesystem. I'm surprised that this wasn't caught >> during the devtmpfs code review--guess I'll have to file a bug report. >> Anyway, if you find yourself wondering why vdev has to detect devtmpfs by >> parsing /proc/mounts and verifying that the realpath of the mountpoint is >> the same as or is a subdirectory of a devtmpfs mountpoint, that's why--we >> (currently) can't rely on the f_fsid in statfs(2) or statvfs(2). >> >> Thanks, >> Jude >> >> > Hello Jude, > > Before I start pulling your latest commit, could you please let me know > from which source should I pull that? Should it be from > https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/vdev or > https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev? So far I have been using the one on > github.com. > > Cheers, > > Anto > >
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