On 04/26/2012 08:58 AM, Arto Jantunen wrote: > Eray Aslan <eray.as...@caf.com.tr> writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:23:18AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >>> I think Arto Jantunen explained it pretty well earlier in this thread: >>>> Reliability in the case of modern kernels and modern hardware means >>>> event based, not static. The hardware in a modern computer comes and >>>> goes as it pleases (usb devices being the worst example, but scanning >> >> That's the thing. Hardware do not come and go as it pleases on my >> servers and I do not want anything happening when someone inserts a usb >> device. It's nice on my laptop but not on my servers. > > So you have absolute control on which device gets detected by the kernel > at which exact moment? That's a cool trick indeed, you really need to > teach me how to do that. > > Unless you have radically modified things from the way the kernel works > by default, a lot of things already happen on your servers when a usb > device is inserted (the kernel notices the device and loads a driver, > udev (if it's running and not modified) creates the relevant device > nodes, etc).
And udev does this jus fine, I don't need systemd or whatever else on top of that. > I agree that automatically mounting usb sticks or such on servers would > be more than silly, and haven't suggested that (neither have the upstart > and systemd upstream developers, as far as I'm aware). > -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f98fd7c.4020...@bzed.de
