Hi Andrea: The code to change the timestamp is used for better compression when they were trying to keep the ramdisk size down. I am not sure if this is relevant any more.
I am not sure if SLES9 uses udev, but currently UYOK does not support udev, so more work needs to be done... Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Andrea Righi > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:04 > To: Brian Elliott Finley > Cc: sisuite-dev > Subject: [Sisuite-devel] UYOK and timestamps in initrd > > Hi all, > > I've used the UYOK feature with a SLES9 distro on Dell 1850. > > Unfortunately the following command cause a modprobe of all modules > present in the initrd staging dir!!! > > run_cmd("find $staging_dir -depth -exec touch -t 196912311900 > '{}' ';'"); > > I've to verify closely the problem, but it suppose it is due to the > touch performed on the special block/char files, causing an automatic > modprobe of the required modules to manage the opportune devices... > > This is very very bad... in particular because when it loads the > watchdog module the machine reboot after few minutes... :-( > > I've resolved performing the touch command only for the regular files. > > Attached is the patch. Brian what do you think, can I freely > commit it > into the trunk? > > Regards, > -Andrea > > -- > Andrea Righi > System Management Group - CINECA - http://www.cineca.it > Via Magnanelli 6/3 > 40033 Casalecchio di Reno (BO) - Italy > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
