James Morris wrote:
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
We could also use tmpfs, if that's better wrt. to xattr. No problem.
