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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:42:36
Message-Id: 20120315144151.GA7777@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! by Joshua Kinard
1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:04:52AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
2 > Devtmpfs quite literally handles 98% of my particular usage scenario. Does
3 > that apply to everyone? Nope. Just an interesting observation.
4
5 devtmpfs does not handle device permissions.
6
7 As for a "smaller" udev, feel free to try, please realize that this that
8 is what udev used to be, before it was fixed to work properly. udev is
9 very small and compact, but patches to make it smaller are always
10 welcome.
11
12 There's always mudev if you don't want to run udev, good luck with that.
13
14 greg k-h

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o>