On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:25:07PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:49, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > It has a number of other, not really desired side effects as well. > > 1) Kernel people don't really like ramdisks anymore > > 2) Doing this requires mke2fs in the initramfs. Bleah. > > 3) It puts an artificial cap on the size of your /dev that then has to > > be adjustable. And the cap is related to an overhead of memory usage. > > This is ugly to get "right" > > I agree that ext2 is not a long-term solution to this problem. > > However at the moment we have a default configuration that's grossly broken > with regard to SE Linux. If you upgrade a machine which runs the "targeted" > policy to rawhide then several important daemons (including syslogd) stop > working. If you upgrade a machine which runs the "strict" policy then it > will fail to boot. > > If we were unable to get ramfs working in a reasonable amount of time then > ext2 would be a good option to consider IMHO. It's nice if people experiment with the ramdisk setup, but given the many limitations of it I doubt this should be the default setup or something we encourage people to use. greetings, Florian La Roche
