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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:54:05
Message-Id: CAA2qdGUhuSrQ=B6Vru11bdwCR51Q=sUQ0L7bdS75UQJDZ+TA3w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev? by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 On Nov 16, 2011 3:21 AM, <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
4 >
5 > > However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on
6 XenServer).
7 > > So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give
8 any
9 > > benefits?
10 > >
11 > > I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely static
12 /dev,
13 > > but still can't find any guide/pointers yet.
14 > >
15 > > (Apologies if my email is OOT)
16 >
17 > The more scenarios we can test, the better. mdev might shave a second
18 > or two off the VM's bootup time, versus udev.
19 >
20
21 Okay, I have two staging VMs on XenServer and one on VMware. I'm going to
22 report back what happens. If anything bad happens, *should* be an easy
23 rollback to the previous snapshot.
24
25 Rgds,

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