From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] udev or mdev?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:39:18 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGXH-Hj_xqRdqrTENV9erbkKkVXMDBz4ZeRH+C_vjG8sHw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F699DC3.6030805@loginet.hu>
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On Mar 21, 2012 4:23 PM, "Halassy Zoltán" <zhalassy@loginet.hu> wrote:
>>
>> IMO, initramfs adds yet another black box during server boot.
>
>
> The other way around, for me at least. I build my own initramfs, yet I
don't know anything about mdev, just the fact it's part of busybox. So for
me, mdev is a black box, while my initramfs definitely isn't.
>
>
I see. Well, different views for different people, I guess.
It's easier for me to bypass mdev (if it's b0rken) than to bypass initramfs.
>> And yet
>> another daemon in memory, something I certainly don't need on my static
>> virtualized servers.
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> I agree with that. But why do you need mdev for a static system? A few
mknods would suffice.
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It allows triggered action when I (for example) attach a (virtual) hard
disk to my VM.
Rgds,
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2012-03-19 0:15 ` [gentoo-server] udev or mdev? Pandu Poluan
2012-03-19 1:32 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2012-03-19 2:04 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-19 10:38 ` Halassy Zoltán
2012-03-21 6:20 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-21 9:22 ` Halassy Zoltán
2012-03-21 9:39 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2012-03-22 2:17 ` Daniel Reidy
2012-03-23 13:35 ` Drew
2012-03-26 21:11 ` BRM
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