Fedora and udev

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Mon Aug 23 02:09:01 UTC 2004


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:00, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2004, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> > It seems that udev is now virtually mandatory as of the latest
> > rawhide update.
>
> This is what makes it, like, mandatory:
>
> /etc/udev/udev.conf:
> UDEV_INITRD="yes"
>
> Change it to `no' and hopefully everything will work again.  It breaks
> more than SELinux.

Thanks for that advice.  Once I looked at that I noticed that there's an 
option UDEV_RAMFS in the same file which must be set to "no".  I'm not sure 
whether UDEV_RAMFS="no" would allow it to work on SE Linux with 
UDEV_INITRD="yes" but don't have any plans to test this at the moment.

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.

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