From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8Bsy-0002qZ-BH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:42:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 462CDE0BDF; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972F2E0BA1 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2AE205DD for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:41:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:41:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=K7Ios7Ks3X4DI6nA5+wztI9Ixko=; b=G78vhCtGyKZVSEmTJN9/QibqyBm9 JT62e2rA66tDpkvCR6UaGY8pOfEXaAxP6pp0mW+YwbkF9roYR/GP2xTXSdu57tBP 5MD+6HmptLyL3iOqQxvxQcROOH0TuG4lXickc7vyuix9wAifELhNBLJj38Flt9fH ZE7Z2TTbUbfoKew= X-Sasl-enc: D6tmy4Fx0hUHR8S9FTdML0dO15Zs++MSppYhz76WxnKm 1331822512 Received: from localhost (c-76-121-69-168.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [76.121.69.168]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F6388E018F; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:41:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:41:51 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Message-ID: <20120315144151.GA7777@kroah.com> References: <20120311173355.GB6599@linux1> <4F5EA152.80604@gentoo.org> <4F5FE34A.4030609@gentoo.org> <4F6091CE.1050009@gentoo.org> <20120314144115.GA30606@kroah.com> <20120314145144.GC3200@ca.inter.net> <20120314150431.GA2033@kroah.com> <4F61CCD4.9000002@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F61CCD4.9000002@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 054759cb-3867-4adc-9736-1a7cd15d36d8 X-Archives-Hash: 8cec52da711cd95149be0e79ca7173a9 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:04:52AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: > Devtmpfs quite literally handles 98% of my particular usage scenario. Does > that apply to everyone? Nope. Just an interesting observation. devtmpfs does not handle device permissions. As for a "smaller" udev, feel free to try, please realize that this that is what udev used to be, before it was fixed to work properly. udev is very small and compact, but patches to make it smaller are always welcome. There's always mudev if you don't want to run udev, good luck with that. greg k-h