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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead
of udev?
From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 07:52, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>
> On Nov 16, 2011 3:21 AM, <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>>
>> =C2=A0The more scenarios we can test, the better. =C2=A0mdev might shave=
a second
>> =C2=A0or two off the VM's bootup time, versus udev.
>>
>
> Okay, I have two staging VMs on XenServer and one on VMware. I'm going to
> report back what happens. If anything bad happens, *should* be an easy
> rollback to the previous snapshot.
>
1st Report: amd64-hardened on XenServer, PV-mode
Booted okay. There's 1 (one) red asterisk but it booted so fast I
can't see what that asterisk was about. `less /var/log/rc.log` did not
show anything...
... but I realized that I can scroll up on XenServer console, so I saw
that the asterisk said:
* Error: fopen(/lib64/rc/init.d/rc.log) failed: No such file or directory
Nothing serious though. I think it was because /lib64/rc/init.d got
overlaid by rc-svcdir during boot, so rc.log disappeared.
(Doing `mount -o bind / /mnt/rooot && ls /mnt/rooot/lib64/rc/init.d`
showed that rc.log existed in the non-overlaid /lib64/rc/init.d)
/dev/xvdb* (which was not created statically in the non-overlaid /dev) appe=
ared.
/dev/xvdd appeared when I attached an ISO image to the VM.
mount /dev/xvdd /mnt/cd worked. I could `ls /mnt/cd` and see the
contents of the CD.
"Ejecting" the ISO image made /dev/xvdd disappear (as it should).
Networking is okay.
The Xen virtual console (hvc0) works okay.
`rc-update | grep dev` showed `udev-postmount` still part of default,
so I did `rc-update del udev-postmount default` and rebooted, and all
were still well (and still a glint of red asterisk).
Unmerging udev went well.
All in all, rebooting after switching to udev *seems* to be faster.
Rgds,
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FdS Pandu E Poluan
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