[systemd-devel] [libvirt] How to make udev not touch my device?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 16:34:04 UTC 2016


On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 05:01:40PM +0100, Michal Sekletar wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > What kind of issues ?
> 
> General problem with manually created device nodes is that udev and
> systemd do not know about them. Device units do not exist for these
> device nodes. Hence these device units can not be a dependency of some
> other unit. Typical example is manually created device node referenced
> from /etc/fstab. Then corresponding mount unit is bound to a device
> that never shows up and hence it always fails to mount even tough
> device node is there.

Ok, that sounds irrelevant to libvirt's usage wrt QEMU, so I don't
see any problem for us here.

Regards,
Daniel
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