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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] udev or mdev?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:12:26
Message-Id: CAA2qdGXU+vFMgqjsu2fOQ9XoxNQHJ7wvjzxXaB19vTG2x1jpBA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] udev or mdev? by "Halassy Zoltán"
1 On Mar 19, 2012 5:39 PM, "Halassy Zoltán" <zhalassy@×××××××.hu> wrote:
2 >>
3 >> a. I'm using udev and will still be using udev, latest version
4 >
5 >
6 > This.
7 >
8 > Question: Why would I replace a known system to a unknown one? The effort
9 required to replace udev with mdev could be used to create an initramfs to
10 mount that /usr , or alter the /etc/init.d/udev-mount to depend on an extra
11 service, which does nothing else, but mount /usr . With the latter, further
12 upgrades would just need to keep the extra depend in the init script, long
13 live config-protect.
14 >
15
16 IMO, initramfs adds yet another black box during server boot. Plus, udev is
17 getting more and more complex with all its intelligence. And yet another
18 daemon in memory, something I certainly don't need on my static virtualized
19 servers.
20
21 Rgds,

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Re: [gentoo-server] udev or mdev? "Halassy Zoltán" <zhalassy@×××××××.hu>