Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?

[Pandu Poluan]

Plus, I'm feeling adventurous and will experiment with VirtualBox also ;)

Rgds,
 On Nov 16, 2011 7:52 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:

>
> On Nov 16, 2011 3:21 AM, <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
> >
> > > However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on
> XenServer).
> > > So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give
> any
> > > benefits?
> > >
> > > I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely static
> /dev,
> > > but still can't find any guide/pointers yet.
> > >
> > > (Apologies if my email is OOT)
> >
> >  The more scenarios we can test, the better.  mdev might shave a second
> >  or two off the VM's bootup time, versus udev.
> >
>
> Okay, I have two staging VMs on XenServer and one on VMware. I'm going to
> report back what happens. If anything bad happens, *should* be an easy
> rollback to the previous snapshot.
>
> Rgds,
>