>     Dear Jude,

>         I would like to try your vdev. I plan to use a diskless
>     embeded powerpc I have available for devel. I prefer that to using
>     quemu and I want to keep my laptop functional h24.

>         I would do it in an OS built from scratch with only 3
>     components: kernel version 2.6.29, busybox and vdev. Therefore I
>     would like to compile vdev and link it statically from the source.
>     Does it seem feasible?

>         Didier

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     Hello Jude.

     Here is a brief summary of what I did up to now. The goal was to 
install a minimal rootfs in flash memory of an embeded Powerpc 
(MVME3100) to use as a sandbox.

     1) I compiled a kernel with the following boot parameters:
         console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/mtdblock1 rootfstype=jffs2

     2) The filesystem contains busybox-1.20.2 statically linked with 
musl, which I had done a while ago.

     3) vdevd:

     I first tried to compile vdev natively on Debian Wheezy, but could 
not link it statically as I wanted. This is actually a classical problem 
with glibc everytime network functions are used. Actually the offending 
functions are getpwnam_r() and the like. I guess this is related with 
NIS compatibility built in the glibc.

     I decided to link against musl libc. To save time I just downloaded 
a ready-made image of sabotage-linux for powerpc and compiled vdev in a 
sabotage chroot.

     I have now my minimal OS working. init is a little script doing the 
necessary mounts, including /dev on tmpfs and creating a few device 
files (console, ttyS0, null, zero). The script starts an interactive 
session and I could try to run vdevd by hand:

/ # vdevd /dev
00487:268746168: [          vdev.c:0425] vdev_init: ERROR: 
vdev_config_load('(null)') rc = -14
00487:268746168: [          main.c:0042] main: ERROR: vdev_init rc = -14
/ #

     AFIU, I am only missing a config file... :-)

     Didier