On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100 > David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: [snip] > > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is > > that many of the daemons that can be started by udev scripts require > > work files on /var, so we could well need /var mounted too. > > Which begs the obvious question, > > Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT? Your guess is as good as mine! At present, the first thing I see when udev starts is a failed attempt to run /usr/sbin/alsactl to restore the audio levels on my sound card. This occurs before localmount or any other services in the sysinit run-level have been started. Just why anybody wants sound before the disk volumes have been mounted baffles me; I guess people are just desperate for the comforts of stereo. Perhaps my mind simply lacks the sophistication to understand the design of udev. I guess I'll just stick to my 80-column Hollerith cards. ... :-) -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====================================================================== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ======================================================================
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