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

[Ionut Biru]

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.

-- 
Ionuț

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