[arch-projects] [PATCH] [devtools] Add /dev/loop-control support.

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 01/11/2012 10:36 AM, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 03:02 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 11.01.2012 12:40, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>> Ouch, partially true ( partially because udev does not create devices
>>> anymore
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=220893b3cbdbf8932f95c44811b169a8f0d33939
>>> and such device will be outside the chroot in devtmpfs.
>>>
>>> So (chroot)/dev should be devtmpfs here...
>>>
>> There were reasons against that, I'm afraid. I have no good solution for
>> this problem right now, let's first find out why we build a tmpfs
>> instead of bind-mounting the host /dev.
>>
> We used to lose /dev entries on host when somebody started a second
> compilation on the same chroot when rsync is used to clean the build
> directory.
>
> No idea if we have this bug anymore since now we have proper locking.
>
mmmm I guess that is related to /dev/pts, that is now mounted with -o 
newinstance

PS: In that case (keeping devtools like now), is the time to do 
something that I have pending since long time in mkarchiso: make it 
independent from mkarchroot.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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