[Pvfs2-developers] some testing questions

[Pete Wyckoff]

slang at mcs.anl.gov wrote on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:56 -0500:
> On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:17 PM, David Brown wrote:
> > Oooo, installing a nice udev rules file might be appropriate for
> > setting permissions and such for this.
> 
> As I see it, if you need root for one step, then you might as well  
> use it for both.  The kernel module has to be loaded as root anyway,  
> so what does running the client as a non-root user buy you?

You can do fancy auto-loading things as David points out.  We
probably should do the sysfs magic in the kernel module.  If udev
happens to be running, this can auto-create the /dev entry, with
whatever perms the udev config files choose.

If someone were eager to figure this out, I think we could test it
and get it to work on all kernels pretty easily.

		-- Pete