On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Fabio Ricci wrote: > Which is the best for handling /dev fs? > i have tried to use udev with hotplug but it seems that the boot phase is too > much long, > instead with devfs i cant see some link on /dev.
In kernel 2.6.x, devfs is no longer Politically Correct, but as you say, udev and UML have a bad interaction so that on my machine it takes fully five minutes to boot the guest. The problem is that setup scripts are being run in /etc/udev.d that are not relevant to the UML devices and that have timeouts. If you can export UDEV_NO_SLEEP=1 and UDEV_NO_DEVD=1 for most devices when running /sbin/udev, that will speed it up dramatically. See: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/documents/uml-install-suse.html and search for "/sbin/udev" for a script that does this. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key) ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
