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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@piing.fr>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev;
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The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 20:13, Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@piing.fr> wrote:

> > But servers have enough ressources to run udev and any required
> > initramfs to mount /usr.
> 
> No, no, no, you got it the wrong way around.
> 
> It's not udev *per se* that I -- as a server admin -- want to get rid of.
> 
> It's the initramfs.
> 
> And I also want to put /usr in a separate partition.
> 
> The problem is that, judging from where udev is going in upstream, we
> will be forced to use initramfs, or put /usr in /

I know. It's the "I want to get the rid of initramfs" thing that looks
crazy to me.

> > As initramfs is a prooven working solution, all distributions I know use
> > it either by default or if needed.
> 
> Then again, using initramfs is yet-another-component waiting to break.
> 
> Knowing Murphy's Law, it will one day fuck up everything.

And the mdev alternative won't follow this law?

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht