Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:30:54 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] /sbin/hotplug multiplexor |
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Now let's be conservative and assume 16KB unswappable memory > > > per task. Now we take the famous 4000 disk case. 64MB. A lot > > > but probably not deadly. But multiply this by 15 and the machine is > > > absolutely dead. > > > > Ok, then the "Enterprise Edition" of the distros that expect to handle > > 4000 disks will have to add the following patch to their version of the > > hotplug package. > > > > In the meantime, the other 99% of current Linux users will exist just > > fine :) > > Well, for a little elegance you might introduce subdirectories for each type > of hotplug event and use only them.
No, that's for the individual scripts/programs to decide. For example, that's what the current hotplug scripts do, but that's not at all what the udev program wants to do.
thanks,
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