On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:17:04 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> walt wrote: > > On 01/20/2013 01:29 AM, victor romanchuk wrote: > >> just migrated to sys-fs/udev-197 - everything went smoothly and > >> seems to work. the only observation at this time is absence of > >> device file /dev/root whilst both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are > >> referring to that device node: > >> > >> # grep root /etc/mtab /proc/mounts > >> /etc/mtab:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,commit=0 0 0 > >> /proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > >> /proc/mounts:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 > > I see exactly the same and didn't even notice until you mentioned > > it. Did /dev/root really exist in the /dev/ directory in the past? > > Can't remember. > > > > It does here: > > root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/root > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 10 07:12 /dev/root -> sda6 > root@fireball / # > > Since this appears to be a issue now, I'm switching to eudev. For > some reason, I can't mask enough to keep it as it is now. I hope I > don't loose my uptime. > > root@fireball / # uptime > 18:16:17 up 120 days, 11:25, 9 users, load average: 0.25, 0.63, > 1.09 root@fireball / # So you are not doing kernel updates anymore. Interesting. Perhaps you do not realize just how much information you leaked right there :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
