[systemd-devel] Problems with rootfs over nfs

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 16.05.11 13:44, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers at vrfy.org) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 13:39, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> > On 15 May 2011 15:16, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
> >> Just a first quick check of an issue we ran into with ATA disks:
> >> what's in /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug before you shut down? Or what's
> >> CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER in your kernel setup, it must be ="" on modern
> >> systems, otherwise the kernel will they to exec() binaries all the
> >> time and keep the system's rootfs busy.
> >
> > I'm also having trouble shutting down with systemd, and I have
> > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
> > So I'll try this solution. Thanks.
> >
> > Just a quick question: is the same also true for Fedora 14
> > (upstart-1.2, udev-161)? i.e. can and should that config option be
> > cleared under that setup too? I guess so, given that /sbin/hotplug
> > doesn't even exist.
> 
> Yeah, /sbin/hotplug is ancient history or (broken) embedded-like
> setups, it should always be disabled. In earlier udev/init setups we
> used to do: echo > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, but we don't do it in
> systemd setups, that's why it pops up now.

I could add a taint check for this? Shall I?

Lennart

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