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Author: shraptor
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] vdev status update: eventfs
So how to get eventfs going with vdev.

./eventfs /run/udev

or where should eventfs be mounted?


Eventfs mounting will not be handled by vdev, right?


/scooby


On 2015-09-22 04:44, Jude Nelson wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I promise, I'm not dead :)  I've been working on vdev off and on over
> the past couple months as time permitted, but I haven't had anything
> interesting to report here (mostly bug fixes, which are tracked on the
> project's Github [1]).  This past week I've been able to spend more
> time on vdev, now that my major event for $WORK has come and gone.
>
> I'm pleased to announce the availability of eventfs [2], the final
> piece of software required to replace udev.  Eventfs is a specialized
> userspace filesystem that replaces the udev-to-libudev event multicast
> protocol, which is currently based on netlink but will soon be based
> on kdbus.  Eventfs fulfills an equivalent role, but it does so in a
> portable manner in userspace, and it abstracts dealing with message
> multicast groups as dealing with files and directories with a few
> extra rules [3].
>
> I'm going to migrate my production machine to using eventfs with
> libudev-compat this weekend.  Once I'm satisfied that it works as
> expected, I'll begin packaging all of vdev's components for Devuan.
>
> Questions, comments, and feedback are all welcome :)
>
> Thanks,y
> Jude
>
> [1] https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev [1]
> [2] https://github.com/jcnelson/eventfs [2]
> [3] https://github.com/jcnelson/eventfs/blob/master/README.md [3]
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev
> [2] https://github.com/jcnelson/eventfs
> [3] https://github.com/jcnelson/eventfs/blob/master/README.md
>
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