X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=63826003e75af83273d03b0c8250dfd1a14f0546;hb=6e0768d2906887d6cf78a7f073c0c5343e49442b;hp=fcb6c75dcf95cbc8b5ee46d6eaec90aef16cc5cd;hpb=5f59fa0900a5c127ce1a25d8ba3176f166662f96;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fcb6c75dc..63826003e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,18 +2,27 @@ udev 167 ======== Bugfixes. -The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /dev/.run/udev/. -On new systems the tmpfs mountpoint /var/run/ will have an -"early-boot alias" /dev/.run/ where udev and a couple of other -early-boot tools will put their runtime data. -On systems with LVM used, packagers must make sure, that the -initramfs creates the /dev/.run/ mountpoint for udev to store -the data, so that the real root will not overmount it, which -would make it invisible. +The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /run/udev/. The +/run mountpoint is supposed to be a tmpfs mounted during early boot, +available and writable to for all tools at any time during bootup, +it replaces /var/run/, which should become a symlink some day. + +If /run does not exist, or is not writable, udev will fall back using +/dev/.udev/. + +On systemd systems with initramfs and LVM used, packagers must +make sure, that the systemd and initramfs versions match. The initramfs +needs to create the /run/ mountpoint for udev to store the data, and +mount this tmpfs to /run in the rootfs, so the that the udev database +is preserved for the udev version started in the rootfs. The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary. +The fstab_import callout is no longer built or installed. Udev +should not be used to mount, does not watch changes to fstab, and +should not mirror fstab values in the udev database. + udev 166 ======== Bugfixes.