Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Joel Becker (Joel.Becker@oracle.com)
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:04:37 -0700

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:59:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> You can store the default permissions in the database you use to store
> the naming data. This solves the reboot problem, as long as you can
> convince people to not modify the permissions on their own (well even if
> they do, at shutdown, you can always validate that they are the same
> before you clean up the node.)

There is no reason this can't live on ext3. The permissions are
always right. At device insertion, udev sees that the new device is
'disk0' and modifies /dev/disk0 to point to the new device (whatever
number). Permissions are preserved.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle Corporation
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