On Thu, Aug 3, 2017, at 08:00, Ian D. Leroux wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 10:54:30 +0000 (UTC) chris...@astron.com (Christos > Zoulas) wrote: > > > In article <20170802215811.02ff2faba38001ebe4f53...@fastmail.fm>, > > Ian D. Leroux <idler...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > >The patches stop swap1_stop from blindly unmounting a tmpfs-mounted > > >/dev/while the system is still running multi-user. > > > > [...] > > > > Why not just skip /dev? > > [ Ian grumbles that this all feels unclean and worries about device > nodes on other filesystems ]
Then again, perhaps I'm overthinking this. swap1_stop runs after most of userland has gone down and only a fraction of a second before userland disappears altogether. If I read the dependencies correctly, /usr and /var may already be gone by then, and anything not unmounted as part of swap1_stop will get the axe a split-second later. Is there any reasonable scenario in which a device node outside /dev might still be accessible or needed after swap1_stop runs? If not, then my objections are mostly theoretical and I'd be happy to see a pragmatic fix committed. I'll prepare a patch against -current, hopefully tonight. -- IDL
