Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:51:08AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:07:48 PST, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>  said:
> 
> > What is "efficiently"?  No one really cares about milliseconds here,
> > seconds are even tollerable at least for small seconds :)
> 
> Anybody who's had to sit and watch a Sun E10K enumerate 400+ disks
> will disagree with that, unless "small seconds" are tiny fractions thereof. :)

It's "small seconds" _after_ the kernel has enumerated them.  That's the
majority of the time spent enumerating scsi disks.

Also, udev will be running while the kernel is off detecting the next
disk.

thanks,

greg k-h
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