Fedora and udev

[Russell Coker]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:49, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> 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.

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