The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote: > But I can see a use case for mdev completely replacing udev: servers and > virtual machines. > > Servers, especially production ones, have a hardware change only once in > every two blue moons. They don't need all the bells and whistles of udev. > > Even more so when you've gone the virtualized route. > > Since servers are arguably where Linux shines the most, mdev should be > seriously considered as a udev replacement.
But servers have enough ressources to run udev and any required initramfs to mount /usr. So, the question is where engineering should go: - mdev and manually manage /dev devices if nedded or - rely on initramfs to mount /usr. As initramfs is a prooven working solution, all distributions I know use it either by default or if needed. Also, I think the coming problem you will be face with in the mdev way is the move of binaries from /bin to /usr/bin and so. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
