Re: udev or mdev?

Halassy Zoltán <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:22:11 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.

> And yet
> another daemon in memory, something I certainly don't need on my static
> virtualized servers.

I agree with that. But why do you need mdev for a static system? A few 
mknods would suffice.
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