Re: RFC - device names and mdadm with some reference to udev.

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:31:57PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 17:59, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
>> also sprach Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> [2008.10.27.1737 +0100]:
>>> It's very simple to setup and follows the same logic as udev running
>>> in the rootfs, There is absolutely no "increase of complexity"
>>> involved if you use udev in the real root anyway, you just copy the
>>> binaries and the rules, and on bootup you wait for /dev/root to show
>>> up, mount it and start /sbin/init. Custom busybox stuff does not
>>> support any non-trivial feature a "general purpose" distro needs to
>>> support today.
>>
>> I would love to see some explicit instructions, then I could carry
>> them into Debian,
>
>What do you miss from the Ubuntu setup?
>
>> which is currently using full-blown udev with
>> initramfs.
>
>Which is the right thing to do, yes.
>
i believe it is overkill
initramfs should have the sole purpose of finding and mounting the root
filesystem, there is no need in packing it with unneeded junk.

L.

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