Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 :-) > >
Well, I have seen servers run for YEARS with no reboots. Most of those admit, they don't upgrade them at all. One several years ago said he hadn't even blew out the dust in that time. It was over 5 years since he even logged into it. He kept his in a closet. One of those was on the old show TheScreenSavers on Tech TV. So, I do a LOT more to mine than most. Given my connection to the internet, the fact that I update everything I can short of a reboot, I'm not worried one bit. May have found a bug for eudev tho. It seems that you have to unmerge dracut since it had a hard dependency on the udev package instead of the virtual. Going to test that now. Been chatting on the eudev list. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
