On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:56:48AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > We either need to get ramfs working in the Fedora kernels or make some changes > > to the udev plans. > > > > One option would be to use an ext2 file system on a ram disk for udev. It > > would do all the same stuff as ramfs (at a slightly higher memory cost) and > > work perfectly with SE Linux. ... but it would still leave you with the patches to udev to apply [to do symlinks and directories as well as inodes] and also would leave you with an "initial startup" issue to set up initial perms on /dev/null, /dev/initctl, rights to create /dev/fd/ etc. all the stuff that the /etc/init.d/udev "hacks" do. ... just because you're using a persistent ext2 filesystem with xattr permissions storable on a ramdisk it doesn't mean you'd have initial setup issues! but yes, those could be set up once, in permissive mode, and consequently the problem is avoided. l.
