Greg asked some questions about our use of udev per below.
Can anyone provide some insight?
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:59:43 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>,
Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
lkml <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][7/7] add xattr support to ramfs
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:26:29PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 16:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:22:20PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > > This patch adds xattr support to tmpfs, and a security xattr handler.
> > > Original patch from: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > What's the point on doing this for ramfs? And if you really want this
> > the implementation could be shared with tmpfs easily and put into xattr.c
>
> For udev.
What's wrong with using a tmpfs for udev in such situations that xattrs
are needed? udev does not require ramfs at all. In fact, why not just
use a ext2 or ext3 partition for /dev instead today, if you really need
it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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