On Mar 21, 2012 4:23 PM, "Halassy Zoltán" <zhalassy@loginet.hu> wrote:
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>> IMO, initramfs adds yet another black box during server boot.
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> 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.
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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,